Ashland, Illinois.
Typical home $140,051 (+8.2% in a year). Jacksonville, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$376 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,626 +8%
- $129,425$140,051 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,945 +32%
- $106,105$140,051 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.
- Ashland$735
- 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 Ashland, IL rose 8.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ashland, Cass County, Illinois
Ashland is a village of 1,218 people in Cass County. Half its households earn more than $68,060 a year and half less, against $68,125 across Cass County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Cass County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 10.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ashland is a village in Cass County, in west-central Illinois, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes in the village are close to the county's. Winters are colder than in much of the country, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a wet year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in professional and business services, or in local shops. Across Cass County, jobs fell over the latest year even as unemployment eased.
Things to do. For a day out, Lincoln's New Salem is a museum a longer drive away, and the Lincoln Home National Historic Site and the Old State Capitol State Historic Site are also museums a longer drive away. The La Moine River, also a longer drive away, is a river for those who like to spend time by water.
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- 437households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cass County had 4,595 jobs in 2025, 10.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Athens 4SW weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cass County
- Swift Pork Company BeardstownPork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants2,070
- Beardstown CUSD 15School district317FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters178
- JBS USA Sanitation Corporation BeardstownJanitorial services154
- A-C Central CUSD 262School district97FTE
- Beardstown Health and Rehab CenterSkilled nursing facilities72
- Virginia CUSD 64School district38FTE
- Beard Implement Company ArenzvilleAgricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,520 people in all across the county; Ashland has one of its own. School districts come 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
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ashland’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 Cass County and the Jacksonville, IL metro.
Ashland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ashland$140,051
- 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.
- Ashland5
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Ashland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ashland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.