Yates City, Illinois.
Typical home $126,808 (+14.8% in a year). Galesburg, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$362 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,341 +15%
- $110,467$126,808 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,667 +33%
- $95,141$126,808 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.
- Yates City$666
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Yates City, IL rose 14.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Yates City, Knox County, Illinois
Yates City is a village of 642 people in Knox County. Half its households earn more than $63,750 a year and half less, against $57,030 across Knox County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Knox County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Knox County work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Yates City is a small village in Knox County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners and very few people rent. Household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole, and a smaller share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical for the county. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm summer days, and rain and melted snow arrive steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Knox County, some of the largest workplaces are Galesburg CUSD, St. Mary Medical Center and Knox College. The typical commute is a long one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Jubilee College State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Mackinaw River is another river to visit at a similar distance. Families can also make the longer drive to the Peoria Zoo.
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- 248households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Knox County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Knox County had 17,188 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 65°. About 25 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Knoxville weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Knox County
- Galesburg CUSD 205School district562FTE
- St. Mary Medical CenterGeneral hospital470FTE
- Knox CollegeUniversity or college465
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters392
- State of IL - IDOC - Hill CCPardon boards and offices301
- Carl Sandburg CollegeTwo-year college285
- Abingdon-Avon CUSD 276School district226FTE
- MidMachine shops216
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 42 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,268 people in all across the county; Yates City has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Yates City’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 Knox County and the Galesburg, IL metro.
Yates City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Yates City$126,808
- 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.
- Yates City5
Zip codes with a Yates City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Yates City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.