Onarga, Illinois.
Typical home $149,297 (-1.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$330 (+73%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,368 -2%
- $151,665$149,297 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,939 +6%
- $140,358$149,297 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.
- Onarga$784
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 56 years.
Typical home values in Onarga, IL fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Onarga, Iroquois County, Illinois
Onarga is a village of 1,333 people in Iroquois County. Half its households earn more than $78,352 a year and half less, against $66,255 across Iroquois County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Iroquois County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Onarga is a small village in Iroquois County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, a far higher rate of ownership than most places. Household incomes are above the county's, and the typical home is modest in price. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm summer days, and rain and melted snow are steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops. Across Iroquois County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Prairieview Lutheran Homes and the Central CUSD 4 school district. Most people have a short drive to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Iroquois River and the Iroquois County State Wildlife Area, a protected area, are each a longer drive away. Bayles Lake, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away. Those who like aviation history can visit the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, again a longer drive from the village.
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- 535households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iroquois County had 7,015 jobs in 2025, 4.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 63°. About 25 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Piper City weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Iroquois County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters222
- Prairieview Lutheran HomesSkilled nursing facilities213
- Central CUSD 4School district187FTE
- Iroquois West CUSD 10School district166FTE
- Nexus Onarga Family HealingMental health facilities, residential164
- T&D Metal ProductsCold rolling steel shapes made from purchased steel161
- Iroquois Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital151FTE
- LyonShowcases manufacturing142
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,886 people in all across the county; Onarga has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Onarga’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 Iroquois County.
Onarga home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Onarga$149,297
- 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.
- Onarga4
Zip codes with a Onarga address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Onarga — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.