Ashley, Illinois.
Typical home $141,773 (+16.9% in a year). Mount Vernon, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$372 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,528 +17%
- $121,245$141,773 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,805 +30%
- $108,968$141,773 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.
- Ashley$744
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Ashley, IL rose 16.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ashley, Washington County, Illinois
Ashley is a city of 462 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $49,559 a year and half less, against $78,224 across Washington County. Unemployment in Washington County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ashley is a very small city in Washington County, Illinois, with a population that stays close to one another and where most people likely know their neighbors. Household incomes run well below the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Winters are cold, with snow that comes and goes through the season, and summers turn hot, with steady rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and farming also providing jobs. Very few adults hold a four-year degree, and almost no one works from home, so most people travel some distance to their jobs each day. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Nascote, which assembles automotive bumpers, Antolin Southern Illinois, which makes vehicle interior systems, and Washington County Hospital.
Things to do. The closest outdoor spot is Washington County State Recreation Area, a protected area a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Rend Lake and Carlyle Lake, reservoirs for time on the water. Those who like racing can also head to DuQuoin State Fairgrounds Racetrack, a race track a longer drive from town.
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- 2%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 6,218 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 12 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Nashville East weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Nascote- Enterprise AveBumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing843
- Nascote - Mockingbird Road 2Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing281
- Antolin Southern Illinois, LLC (dba Antolin Nashville)Motor vehicle interior systems manufacturing208
- Nascote Industries - Mockingbird RoadBumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing148
- GDB InternationalPigments, paint, merchant wholesalers131
- Washington County HospitalCritical access hospital101FTE
- Nots Logistics90
- West Washington Co CUD 10 SchoolsSchool district79FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,323 people in all across the county; Ashley 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ashley’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 Washington County and the Mount Vernon, IL metro.
Ashley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ashley$141,773
- 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 Ashley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ashley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.