Brighton, Illinois.
Typical home $217,436 (+5.7% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$565 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,651 +6%
- $205,786$217,436 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,773 +29%
- $168,663$217,436 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.
- Brighton$1,141
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Brighton, IL rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brighton, Macoupin County, Illinois
Brighton is a village of 2,221 people in Macoupin County. Half its households earn more than $80,214 a year and half less, against $70,805 across Macoupin County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Macoupin County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brighton is a village in Macoupin County, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, and the typical home value is well above what many older homeowners might expect for a small Illinois village. Winters are cold and summers warm, with some snow each year and plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Macoupin County, the largest workplaces include Carlinville Area Hospital, Carlinville CUSD 1 and North Mac CUSD 34. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Most outings from Brighton mean a longer drive. Gateway Arch National Park is a national park along the Mississippi riverfront, and the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Saint Louis Zoo are both a longer drive away. Cahokia, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away.
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- 820households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Macoupin County had 9,921 jobs in 2025, 2.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 12 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jerseyville Southwest weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Macoupin County
- Carlinville Area HospitalCritical access hospital240FTE
- Carlinville CUSD 1School district206FTE
- North Mac CUSD 34School district194FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters182
- Gillespie CUSD 7School district176FTE
- Staunton CUSD 6School district165FTE
- Blackburn CollegeUniversity or college149
- Mount Olive Container129
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,077 people in all across the county; Brighton has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brighton’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 Macoupin County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Brighton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brighton$217,436
- 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.
- Brighton15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brighton6
Zip codes with a Brighton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brighton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.