Tilton, Illinois.
Typical home $85,524 (+13.5% in a year). Danville, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$267 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,176 +14%
- $75,347$85,524 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,829 +48%
- $57,694$85,524 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.
- Tilton$449
- 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 Tilton, IL rose 13.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tilton, Vermilion County, Illinois
Tilton is a village of 2,660 people in Vermilion County. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Vermilion County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Vermilion 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tilton is a village in Vermilion County, home to a small community where most households own the place they live in. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and incomes in the county run below the national picture. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and a good number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the hottest. Rain and melted snow fall steadily across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and banking, insurance and property also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Tilton are Niemann Foods, R+L Carriers and the Vermilion Association for Special Education Schools. The typical commute is short, and only a small group of workers do their jobs from home. Job numbers across the county slipped last year, and unemployment in the county is lower now than a year ago.
Things to do. The Fischer Theater is in or beside town, a place for stage and screen close to home. A short drive away, Kickapoo State Recreation Area is a protected area for time outdoors, and Lake Vermilion offers a lake nearby. For a longer outing, Williamsport Falls is a waterfall a longer drive away.
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- 1,173households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Vermilion County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vermilion County had 25,378 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Danville weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tilton
- Niemann Foods98
- R+L Carriers - DANGeneral freight trucking long-distance less than truckload58
- Vermilion Assoc for Spec Educ SchoolsSchool district48FTE
- MH Equipment CoCommercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services43
- Running SupplyRetail33
- AOJ OperationsAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities21
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 274 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tilton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Vermilion County and the Danville, IL metro.
Tilton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tilton$85,524
- 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.
- Tilton7
Zip codes with a Tilton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tilton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.