Albers, Illinois.
Typical home $260,347 (+5.3% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$741 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,092 +5%
- $247,255$260,347 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,210 +34%
- $194,137$260,347 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.
- Albers$1,366
- 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 Albers, IL rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Albers, Clinton County, Illinois
Albers is a village of 1,121 people in Clinton County. Half its households earn more than $109,583 a year and half less, against $86,588 across Clinton County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Clinton County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Albers is a village in Clinton County, Illinois, home to a small community of residents. Residents tend to be older than in many places, and most households own the home they live in. Incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect, though a four-year degree is held by a smaller group of adults.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in banks, insurance and property, in shops, and in manufacturing. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a modest number of people work from home. Across Clinton County, the largest workplaces include Centralia Correctional Center, Walmart and Kaskaskia College, and unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Shoal Creek, a river, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Carlyle Lake is a reservoir that suits a day out on the water, and Cahokia is an archaeological site of great historical importance. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are hot, so these trips suit the milder seasons best.
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- 541households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clinton County had 12,725 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 11 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Belleville Siu Rsch weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clinton County
- Centralia Correctional CenterCorrectional institutions461
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters325
- Kaskaskia CollegeTwo-year college307
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters212
- Poettker Construction CompanyAddition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building200
- St. Josephs HospitalGeneral hospital184FTE
- Southern Illinois Living Center, Inc, & Southern Illinois Community Support Services179
- Carlyle CUSD 1School district163FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 39 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,371 people in all across the county; Albers has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Albers’ 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 Clinton County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Albers home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Albers$260,347
- 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 Albers address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Albers — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.