Breese, Illinois.
Typical home $262,775 (+5.4% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$758 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,547 +5%
- $249,227$262,775 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,575 +36%
- $193,200$262,775 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.
- Breese$1,379
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Breese, IL rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Breese, Clinton County, Illinois
Breese is a city of 4,641 people in Clinton County. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Clinton County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clinton County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Breese is a small city where most homes are lived in by their owners, well above what is typical across the country, and where very few residents live below the poverty line. Typical home values sit at a moderate level. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and the daily commute is a little longer than a short hop across town. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying near freezing, while July brings hot summers. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, shops and manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Breese are St. Joseph's Hospital, Poettker Construction Company and the Breese ESD 12 Schools. Unemployment across Clinton County is low and has come down from a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs than it had the year before.
Things to do. Carlyle Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away, as are Shoal Creek and Crooked Creek, a pair of rivers good for a quiet afternoon outdoors. For a longer outing, Cahokia, an archaeological site and one of the best known in the region, is a longer drive away.
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- 1,826households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
What people in Clinton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clinton County had 12,725 jobs in 2025, 1.1% 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 88° and lows near 68°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carlyle Rsvr weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Breese
- Poettker Construction CompanyAddition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building200
- St. Josephs HospitalGeneral hospital184FTE
- SLogic HoldingBuildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing101
- Cedarhurst Living, LLC - BreeseAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities71
- Breese ESD 12School district67FTE
- Litteken Construction CompanyCommercial building construction43
- Community LinkHabilitation job counseling and training, vocational39
- Breese Fire DepartmentFire departments)35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 825 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Breese’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 Clinton County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Breese home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Breese$262,775
- 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.
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.
- Breese8
Zip codes with a Breese address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Breese — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.