Tiskilwa, Illinois.
Typical home $150,300 (+0.3% in a year). Ottawa, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$406 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $474 +0%
- $149,826$150,300 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,900 +27%
- $118,399$150,300 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.
- Tiskilwa$789
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Tiskilwa, IL rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tiskilwa, Bureau County, Illinois
Tiskilwa is a village of 740 people in Bureau County. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Bureau County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tiskilwa is a small village in Bureau County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the typical home value is modest. Residents are around the middle of the age range for the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing in January and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm days, and the year brings steady rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, shops, schools, hospitals and social care, and government, and a typical commute is a short drive by car. Across Bureau County, large workplaces include Walmart, the Ace Hardware retail support center in Princeton, and St. Margarets Health in Spring Valley. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Big Bureau Creek is a river a short drive away, and the Donnelley/DePue State Fish and Wildlife Areas, a protected area for wildlife, are also a short drive from town. For a longer outing, Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Starved Rock State Park, one of the best known in the state, can be reached by a longer drive as well.
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- 302households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bureau County had 10,021 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 28 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Princeton weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bureau County
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,153
- Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace HardwareHardware except motor vehicle merchant wholesalers545
- St. Margarets Health - Spring ValleyGeneral hospital402FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters277
- Bureau Valley CUSD 340School district271FTE
- Allegion LCNFurniture hardware, metal, manufacturing266
- Martin EngineeringMining machinery & equipment manufacturing234
- Advanced Asphalt CompanyRoad construction231
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 34 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,776 people in all across the county; Tiskilwa 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
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tiskilwa’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 Bureau County and the Ottawa, IL metro.
Tiskilwa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tiskilwa$150,300
- 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.
- Tiskilwa5
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Tiskilwa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tiskilwa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.