Newark, Illinois.
Typical home $414,564 (+5.7% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,222 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,271 +6%
- $392,293$414,564 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $114,886 +38%
- $299,678$414,564 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Newark$2,176
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Newark, IL rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newark, Kendall County, Illinois
Newark is a village of 973 people in Kendall County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Kendall County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kendall County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Newark is a small village in Kendall County, with far fewer people than most towns of its kind. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a higher share than across most of the country, and few residents live below the poverty line. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many nearby communities, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. The largest workplaces in Newark are the school districts Newark CCSD 66 Schools and Newark CHSD 18 Schools, along with the Newark Fire Protection District. Unemployment across Kendall County is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Somonauk Creek and the Silver Springs State Fish and Wildlife Area are both a short drive away, for time by the water or on protected land. Sandwich City Hall, also a short drive off, is a theatre. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall at a fairly steady rate through the year.
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- 418households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
What people in Kendall County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kendall County had 30,845 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 25 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Morris Northwest weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newark
- Newark CCSD 66School district49FTE
- Newark CHSD 18School district43FTE
- Newark Fire Protection DistrictAmbulance and fire service combined35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 35 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newark’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Kendall County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Newark home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newark$414,564
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Newark address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newark — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.