Sublette, Illinois.
Typical home $209,908 (+4.5% in a year). Dixon, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$427 (+63%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $8,967 +4%
- $200,940$209,908 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.
- Sublette$1,102
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Sublette, IL rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sublette, Lee County, Illinois
Sublette is a village of 380 people in Lee County. Unemployment in Lee County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lee 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sublette is a very small village in Lee County, Illinois, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Homes here are valued below what is typical across much of the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Lee County, the largest workplaces include Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital, Crest Foods Co and Raynor Garage Doors. Commutes are fairly long, and almost no one works from home, so most people travel to a job.
Things to do. Bartlett Woods, a protected natural area, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Starved Rock State Park and White Pines Forest State Park are both protected areas a longer drive away, good for walking and time outdoors. The Fox River is also a longer drive away for those who like to be near water.
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- 195households
- 29 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Lee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lee County had 12,642 jobs in 2025, 2.2% 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 83° and lows near 61°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Compton Northwest weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lee County
- Katherine Shaw Bethea HospitalGeneral hospital716FTE
- Crest Foods CoContract packaging713
- Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions563
- Raynor Garage DoorsGarage doors, metal, manufacturing536
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters334
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical314
- Dixon USD 170School district312FTE
- Sewer Equipment Co. of AmericaDraglines, crawler, manufacturing310
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 39 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,409 people in all across the county; Sublette has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sublette’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 Lee County and the Dixon, IL metro.
Sublette home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sublette$209,908
- 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.
Zip codes with a Sublette address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sublette — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.