Potomac, Illinois.
Typical home $143,619 (+7.0% in a year). Danville, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$385 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,377 +7%
- $134,242$143,619 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,596 +32%
- $109,022$143,619 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.
- Potomac$754
- 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 Potomac, IL rose 7.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Potomac, Vermilion County, Illinois
Potomac is a village of 689 people in Vermilion County. Half its households earn more than $53,194 a year and half less, against $56,877 across Vermilion County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Vermilion County was 4.7% 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 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Potomac is a very small village in Vermilion County, home to fewer people than most places that have their own name on a map. Household incomes here run a little below the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and wholesale. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than is typical, and the drive to work is a fairly long one. Across Vermilion County, some of the largest workplaces are the Veterans Health Administration, Danville CCSD 118 and Frito Lay. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though there are somewhat fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. A short drive away, Kennekuk Cove County Park and Middle Fork State Fish and Wildlife Area are protected areas for time outdoors, and the Collins Archeological District is an archaeological site close by. For a longer outing, Kickapoo State Recreation Area is another protected area, a longer drive away.
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- 262households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vermilion County had 25,378 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 20 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hoopeston weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vermilion County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,094
- Danville CCSD 118School district890FTE
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical695
- Frito LAYBreakfast cereal manufacturing525
- Watchfire Signs (Danville, IL)Manufacturer of electronic signs401
- City of DanvilleExecutive offices, federal, state, and local396
- OSF Sacred Heart Medical CenterGeneral hospital370FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters307
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 79 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,183 people in all across the county; Potomac has none of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), school districts 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 wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Potomac’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 Vermilion County and the Danville, IL metro.
Potomac home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Potomac$143,619
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Potomac address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Potomac — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.