Saunemin, Illinois.
Typical home $147,290 (+19.2% in a year). Pontiac, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$438 (+130%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $23,692 +19%
- $123,598$147,290 since Sep 2025
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.
- Saunemin$773
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Saunemin, IL rose 19.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Saunemin, Livingston County, Illinois
Saunemin is a village of 406 people in Livingston County. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Livingston County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Saunemin is a small village in Livingston County, Illinois, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Homes cost less than in much of the country, and more people live below the poverty line than a household-income picture for the county alone might suggest. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing, summers are warm, and the year brings a good deal of snow along with steady rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and government. Across Livingston County, the largest workplaces include Pontiac Facility, which makes diesel engines, Vactor Manufacturing, which assembles heavy trucks, and OSF Healthcare SJJWAMC, a general hospital. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a short drive.
Things to do. Most of what is nearby is outdoor country, and each of these places is a longer drive away. Kankakee River State Park is a protected area along a river, and Mazon Creek is another protected area. Bayles Lake is a reservoir for those who like to spend a day by the water.
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- 135households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Livingston County had 13,918 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 66°. About 25 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pontiac weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Livingston County
- Pontiac FacilityDiesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing918
- Vactor ManufacturingHeavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis765
- Pontiac Correctional CenterCorrectional institutions458
- OSF Healthcare SJJWAMCHospitals, general medical and surgical383
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters332
- DWT - Aldi329
- WilliamIntellectual and developmental disability facilities, residential279
- Livingston CountyGovernment base facilities operation support services278
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,548 people in all across the county; Saunemin has one of its own. 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 windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Saunemin’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 Livingston County and the Pontiac, IL metro.
Saunemin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saunemin$147,290
- 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.
- Saunemin5
Zip codes with a Saunemin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saunemin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.