Orion, Illinois.
Typical home $223,941 (+6.7% in a year). Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$624 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,085 +7%
- $209,856$223,941 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,841 +32%
- $170,100$223,941 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.
- Orion$1,175
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Orion, IL rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Orion, Henry County, Illinois
Orion is a village of 1,754 people in Henry County. Half its households earn more than $94,375 a year and half less, against $71,911 across Henry County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Henry County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Orion is a small Illinois village in Henry County, home to a modest population that stays close-knit. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well above the county's, with relatively few people living below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, summers turn warm, and rain and melted snow arrive in fair amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, professional and business services, and shops. Across Henry County, some of the largest workplaces are Great Dane Trailers in Kewanee, the Geneseo school district and Hammond-Henry Hospital. A good number of adults hold a four-year degree, and the drive to work is fairly typical for the region, with some people working from home.
Things to do. Niabi Zoo is a short drive away, and so is the Green River, which suits time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to the Figge Art Museum, and the Rock River is also a longer drive away. For a quiet afternoon, those few places cover wildlife, water and art.
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- 745households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henry County had 13,972 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 36 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Moline Quad City International Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Henry County
- Great Dane Trailers- KewaneeTruck trailer manufacturing423
- Geneseo CUSD 228School district367FTE
- SpringfieldBarrels, gun, manufacturing345
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters263
- J.F. Edwards Construction CompanyElectrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work252
- Hammond-henry HospitalCritical access hospital251FTE
- Illinois Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions214
- Kewanee CUSD 229School district190FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,513 people in all across the county; Orion 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Orion’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 Henry County and the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro.
Orion home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Orion$223,941
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Orion6
Zip codes with a Orion address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Orion — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.