Savanna, Illinois.
Typical home $92,738 (+11.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$287 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,529 +11%
- $83,210$92,738 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,006 +50%
- $61,732$92,738 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.
- Savanna$487
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Savanna, IL rose 11.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Savanna, Carroll County, Illinois
Savanna is a city of 2,783 people in Carroll County. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Carroll County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Savanna is a small city in Carroll County, Illinois, on the Mississippi River side of the county. Homes here are mostly lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit well below what many older homeowners elsewhere would expect. Incomes in the county run modest, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm in July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, or in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Savanna are Elkay Plumbing Products - Savanna, American Health Enterprises and Metform LLC / Extrusion Sciences. Unemployment across Carroll County has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Plum River runs in or beside town, and the Apple River is a short drive away. Mississippi Palisades State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive from town. For a longer outing, Bellevue State Park is another protected area a longer drive away.
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- 1,500households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carroll County had 4,081 jobs in 2025, 3.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 60°. About 33 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Carroll weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Savanna
- Elkay Plumbing Products - SavannaDrinking fountains, refrigerated, manufacturing92
- American Health EnterprisesNursing homes79
- Metform LLC / Extrusion SciencesTransmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing64
- Sullivan's Savanna50
- SavannaMail and parcel delivery22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 307 people in all. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Savanna’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 Carroll County.
Savanna home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Savanna$92,738
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Savanna 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.
- Savanna24.44%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Savanna21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Savanna5
Zip codes with a Savanna address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Savanna — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.