Bethalto, Illinois.
Typical home $202,838 (+5.9% in a year), asking rent $1,083 . St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$576 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,238 +6%
- $191,601$202,838 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,210 +34%
- $151,628$202,838 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.
- Bethalto$1,065
- 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 Bethalto, IL rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bethalto, Madison County, Illinois
Bethalto is a village of 9,310 people in Madison County. Half its households earn more than $64,775 a year and half less, against $75,793 across Madison County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Madison County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bethalto is a village in Madison County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the population is somewhat older than in many places. Household incomes run below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults here than in many communities. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm and July is the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Bethalto are West Star Aviation, which does aviation maintenance and repair, the Bethalto school district, and GRP Mechanical Company, a mechanical contractor. A typical commute is a moderate one, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Piasa, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Cahokia, another archaeological site, and to Gateway Arch National Park, which is a national park. The Saint Louis Art Museum is also a longer drive away for those who enjoy museums.
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- 4,098households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 107,517 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alton - Melvin Price L&d weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bethalto
- West Star Aviation - ALNAviation maintenance and repair services709
- Bethalto CUSD 8School district379FTE
- GRP Mechanical CompanyMechanical contractors319
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services195
- Schnuck MarketsSupermarket groc not convenience store91
- Cedarhurst Living, LLC - BethaltoAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities58
- R. F. TechnologiesAirborne radio communications equipment manufacturing55
- Villas of Holly Brook - BethaltoAssisted living facilities for the elderly49
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,560 people in all. 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bethalto’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 Madison County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Bethalto home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bethalto$202,838
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bethalto listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Bethalto23.23%
- United States25.56%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bethalto20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bethalto10
Zip codes with a Bethalto address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bethalto — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.