Brookport, Illinois.
Typical home $101,348 (-4.0% in a year). Paducah, KY-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$95 (+22%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,208 -4%
- $105,556$101,348 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $23,891 -19%
- $125,239$101,348 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.
- Brookport$532
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Brookport, IL fell 4.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brookport, Massac County, Illinois
Brookport is a city of 725 people in Massac County. Half its households earn more than $38,000 a year and half less, against $65,116 across 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brookport is a very small city on the Ohio River in the far southern tip of Illinois, with a population smaller than most towns in the county. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home. Winters are cold, with highs only a little above freezing in January, while July days turn hot. Snow is light, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, transport and warehouses, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment close behind. Across Massac County, the largest workplaces include Harrah's Metropolis, Massac UD 1 Schools and Massac Memorial Hospital. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs there slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. Fort Anderson and the Rowlandton Mound Site lie in or beside town, a fort and an archaeological site reflecting the long history of this stretch of river. A short drive away, Fort Massac is another archaeological site, and the Tennessee River offers a place to be near the water. The National Quilt Museum is also a short drive off.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
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 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 3 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brookport Dam weather station, 2 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; Brookport 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
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brookport’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.
Brookport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brookport$101,348
- 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.
- Brookport7
Zip codes with a Brookport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brookport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.