Alexander, Illinois.
Typical home $174,941 (+9.2% in a year). Jacksonville, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$113 (+14%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $14,748 +9%
- $160,193$174,941 since Sep 2025
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.
- Alexander$918
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Alexander, IL rose 9.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alexander, Morgan County, Illinois
Alexander, in Morgan County, had 155 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Morgan County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Morgan 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Alexander is a very small community in Morgan County, Illinois, where everyone is likely to know a good many of their neighbors. Typical home values sit well below what many older homeowners would see in larger metro areas, and the county's median household income is a little above the national middle. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with a modest amount of snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Morgan County, the largest workplaces include Jacksonville Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville Schools and Illinois College. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Waverly Lake and Lake Jacksonville are both reservoirs a short drive away, good for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Lincoln Home National Historic Site and Lincoln's New Salem, museums tied to the life of Abraham Lincoln.
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What people in Morgan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morgan County had 14,194 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 16 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jacksonville 2E weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morgan County
- Jacksonville Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital553FTE
- Reynolds Consumer Product- West sitePolyethylene film and unlaminated sheet manufacturing482
- Reynolds Consumer ProductsFilm, plastics, manufacturing450
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters416
- Jacksonville SD 117School district393FTE
- Illinois CollegeUniversity or college287
- Hertzberg New MethodBookbinding machines manufacturing210
- Pathway Services UnlimitedGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability205
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 41 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,015 people in all across the county; Alexander has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alexander’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Morgan County and the Jacksonville, IL metro.
Alexander home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alexander$174,941
- 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 Alexander address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alexander — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.