Verona, Illinois.
Typical home $355,998 (+7.9% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$988 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,096 +8%
- $329,902$355,998 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,319 +27%
- $280,680$355,998 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.
- Verona$1,869
- 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 Verona, IL rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Verona, Grundy County, Illinois
Verona is a village of 208 people in Grundy County. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Grundy County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grundy 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Verona is a very small village in Grundy County, Illinois, with few residents and a quiet, rural feel. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented, and a typical home costs more than many homes elsewhere in the county. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and snow falls often enough to shape the season; summers are warm, with July the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and shops. Across Grundy County, some of the largest workplaces are Morris Hospital, Minooka CCSD Schools and Constellation. Few adults hold a four-year degree compared with many places, and commutes are long, so most people travel some distance to work.
Things to do. LaSalle Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area is a protected area a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Starved Rock State Park, another protected area, and to the Kankakee River, a river good for time near the water.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
- 32 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Grundy County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grundy County had 22,954 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more 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 23 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dwight weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grundy County
- Morris HospitalGeneral hospital1,182FTE
- Minooka CCSD 201School district706FTE
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear690
- Costco WholesaleGeneral warehousing & storage685
- Costco WholesaleMeat processed from carcasses681
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear657
- W.W. GraingerIndustrial supplies merchant wholesalers623
- D ConstructionRoad construction508
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 62 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,965 people in all across the county; Verona 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Verona’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 Grundy County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Verona home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Verona$355,998
- 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 Verona address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Verona — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.