Sheridan, Illinois.
Typical home $298,945 (+4.8% in a year). Ottawa, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$858 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,695 +5%
- $285,250$298,945 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,743 +29%
- $231,201$298,945 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.
- Sheridan$1,569
- 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 Sheridan, IL rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sheridan, LaSalle County, Illinois
Sheridan is a village of 2,431 people in LaSalle County. Half its households earn more than $85,250 a year and half less, against $73,045 across LaSalle County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in LaSalle County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in LaSalle County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sheridan is a small village where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run well above the county's. Residents are younger than in many small towns, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs a little below freezing, and summers turn warm in July. Snow falls steadily through the colder months, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across LaSalle County, some of the largest workplaces are Constellation, which generates nuclear power, and the hospitals OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center and Ottawa Regional Hospital & Healthcare. Commutes tend to be long, and some residents work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, though the number of jobs there has slipped a little.
Things to do. Somonauk Creek runs in or beside town, and Indian Creek is a short drive away. Sandwich City Hall, a theatre, is also a short drive off. For a longer outing, Starved Rock State Park, a protected area, lies a longer drive away.
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- 415households
- 5%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 39 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in LaSalle County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. LaSalle County had 38,720 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 25 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marseilles Lock weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in LaSalle County
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear684
- OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center SEMC614
- Ottawa Regional Hospital & HealthcarGeneral hospital561FTE
- James Hardie Building Products, PeruConcrete products, precast, manufacturing450
- PetSmart, Inc. 0036General warehousing and storage426
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters390
- Illinois Valley Community CollegeTwo-year college351
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters326
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 117 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,309 people in all across the county; Sheridan has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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 wavesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sheridan’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 LaSalle County and the Ottawa, IL metro.
Sheridan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sheridan$298,945
- 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.
- Sheridan6
Zip codes with a Sheridan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sheridan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Sheridan
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60551 | Sheridan | 5,058 | — | $301,782 |
| 60537 | Millington | 726 | — | $289,245 |