Oregon, Illinois.
Typical home $237,477 (+8.1% in a year). Rochelle, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$712 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,769 +8%
- $219,708$237,477 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,717 +37%
- $173,760$237,477 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.
- Oregon$1,246
- 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 Oregon, IL rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oregon, Ogle County, Illinois
Oregon is a city of 3,604 people in Ogle County. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Ogle County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oregon is a small city in Ogle County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values sit at a modest level. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is usual across the country, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. The commute to work is an ordinary one, and only a small number of people work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops close behind. Among the largest workplaces in Oregon are the school district, Oregon Living & Rehabilitation Center and Coilcraft, which makes electronic capacitors. Across Ogle County, unemployment has eased over the past year, though there are fewer jobs than there were a year earlier.
Things to do. Lowden State Park sits in or beside town, a protected area along the Rock River bluffs, and the Kyte River runs close by as well. A short drive away is White Pines Forest State Park, another protected area, a good place for a walk among the trees. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
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- 1,773households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ogle County had 14,427 jobs in 2025, 3.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Polo 5NW weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oregon
- Oregon CUSD 220School district168FTE
- Oregon Living & Rehabilitation CenterNursing homes124
- Coilcraft, OregonCapacitors, electronic, fixed and variable, manufacturing62
- City of OregonLocal government37
- F.N. SmithWrapping machinery manufacturing35
- Kunes Country of OregonAutomobile dealers, new only or new and used29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 287 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oregon’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 Ogle County and the Rochelle, IL metro.
Oregon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oregon$237,477
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Oregon listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Oregon22.26%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Oregon23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Oregon12
Zip codes with a Oregon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oregon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.