Stockton, Illinois.
Typical home $159,944 (+8.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$495 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,385 +8%
- $147,559$159,944 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,745 +44%
- $111,198$159,944 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.
- Stockton$840
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Stockton, IL rose 8.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stockton, Jo Daviess County, Illinois
Stockton is a village of 1,728 people in Jo Daviess County. Half its households earn more than $46,934 a year and half less, against $73,993 across Jo Daviess County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Jo Daviess County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stockton is a small village in Jo Daviess County, in the hilly northwest corner of Illinois. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Household incomes run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is usual for the area. Few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in other services, with a good number in the building trades. Among the biggest workplaces in Stockton are the school district and Brewster Cheese, along with its cold storage operation. Most people get to work in a fairly short drive, and few work from home.
Things to do. Apple River Canyon State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Millville, an archaeological site, is close by as well. Mississippi Palisades State Park is a longer drive, and makes a good day out. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
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- 839households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jo Daviess County had 7,551 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 36 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stockton Nne weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stockton
- Stockton CUSD 206School district101FTE
- Brewster CheeseCheese, natural, manufacturing99
- Sullivan's Stockton35
- Brewster Cheese Cold StorageCheese analogs manufacturing23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 157 people in all. School districts come 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
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stockton’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 Jo Daviess County.
Stockton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stockton$159,944
- 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.
- Stockton7
Zip codes with a Stockton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stockton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.