Odell, Illinois.
Typical home $175,211 (+3.7% in a year). Pontiac, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$523 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,187 +4%
- $169,024$175,211 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,372 +41%
- $123,839$175,211 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.
- Odell$920
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Odell, IL rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Odell, Livingston County, Illinois
Odell is a village of 1,003 people in Livingston County. Half its households earn more than $83,558 a year and half less, against $73,790 across Livingston County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Livingston County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Odell is a small village in Livingston County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Residents tend to be older than in many towns, and household incomes run above the county's. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn warm in July, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with government, manufacturing and the building trades also common. Across Livingston County, some of the largest workplaces are Vactor Manufacturing, OSF Healthcare SJJWAMC and Walmart. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a fairly short drive.
Things to do. Kankakee River State Park is a protected area along the river, a longer drive away. Illini State Park, another protected area, and Gebhard Woods State Park are also a longer drive away. For time on the water, the Fox River is a river within a longer drive.
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- 365households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Livingston County had 13,918 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 23 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dwight weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Livingston County
- Pontiac FacilityDiesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing918
- Vactor ManufacturingHeavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis765
- Pontiac Correctional CenterCorrectional institutions458
- OSF Healthcare SJJWAMCHospitals, general medical and surgical383
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters332
- DWT - Aldi329
- WilliamIntellectual and developmental disability facilities, residential279
- Livingston CountyGovernment base facilities operation support services278
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,548 people in all across the county; Odell has one of its own. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Odell’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Livingston County and the Pontiac, IL metro.
Odell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Odell$175,211
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Odell5
Zip codes with a Odell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Odell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.