Belknap, Illinois.
Typical home $152,729 (-0.0% in a year). Paducah, KY-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$205 (+34%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $29 -0%
- $152,757$152,729 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.
- Belknap$802
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Belknap, IL fell 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Belknap, Massac County, Illinois
Belknap is a village of 88 people in Massac County. Unemployment in Massac County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Massac County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Belknap is a very small village in Massac County, in the far south of Illinois, where people tend to know one another. Its residents are older on average than most of the country. Summers are hot and winters are cold, with little snow compared with northern towns, and the area gets more rain than much of the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops. Others work in transport, warehouses and utilities, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment.
Things to do. The Cache River State Natural Area is in or beside town, a protected wetland area for walking and watching wildlife. Mermet Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area and the Henry N. Barkhausen Cache River Wetlands Center are both a short drive away, the first a protected area and the second a museum.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
What people in Massac County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Massac County had 2,853 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 7 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grand Chain Dam weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Massac County
- Harrah's MetropolisGaming330
- Massac UD 1 SchoolsSchool district217FTE
- HoneywellUranium oxide manufacturing210
- Solstice Advanced Materials USUranium compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing210
- Massac Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital184FTE
- Turner Specialty ServicesAll other specialty trade contractors102
- Tutera Senior Living & Health CareSkilled nursing facilities80
- American Electric Power46
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,353 people in all across the county; Belknap has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Belknap’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 Massac County and the Paducah, KY-IL metro.
Belknap home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Belknap$152,729
- 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 Belknap address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Belknap — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.