Port Byron, Illinois.
Typical home $304,514 (+8.1% in a year). Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$840 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,867 +8%
- $281,647$304,514 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,837 +28%
- $237,677$304,514 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.
- Port Byron$1,598
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Port Byron, IL rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Port Byron, Rock Island County, Illinois
Port Byron is a village of 1,668 people in Rock Island County. Half its households earn more than $111,667 a year and half less, against $67,159 across Rock Island County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Rock Island County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Port Byron is a small village in Rock Island County, a place where people tend to know one another. Residents tend to be somewhat older than in many places, and incomes run well above the county's. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than is typical. Winters are cold and the summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, transport and warehouses, and professional and business services. Across Rock Island County, some of the largest workplaces are Tyson Fresh Meats, John Deere Harvester Works and Trinity Rock Island. The county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier, though unemployment there is lower than it was then. A typical commute is moderate, and a fair number of residents work from home.
Things to do. The Wapsipinicon River and the Buffalo Bill Cody Homestead, a museum, are both a short drive away. The Community Building, a theatre, is also close by. A longer drive brings you to the Figge Art Museum.
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- 710households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rock Island County had 69,106 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 66°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Le Claire L&d weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rock Island County
- Tyson Fresh MeatsAnimal slaughtering2,517
- John Deere Harvester WorksCombines manufacturing1,683
- Trinity Rock IslandGeneral hospital1,098FTE
- John Deere North American Parts Distribution CenterGeneral warehousing and storage1,069
- Rock Island SD 41School district1,004FTE
- Moline-Coal Valley CUSD 40School district999FTE
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear711
- John Deere Research & Development Center- SilvisHarvesting machinery and equipment, agriculture, manufacturing673
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 163 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 25,134 people in all across the county; Port Byron has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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 wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Port Byron’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Rock Island County and the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro.
Port Byron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Port Byron$304,514
- 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.
- Port Byron18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Port Byron6
Zip codes with a Port Byron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Port Byron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.