Du Quoin, Illinois.
Typical home $112,810 (+4.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$277 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,130 +5%
- $107,680$112,810 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,802 +13%
- $100,008$112,810 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.
- Du Quoin$592
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Du Quoin, IL rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Du Quoin, Perry County, Illinois
Du Quoin is a city of 5,827 people in Perry County. Half its households earn more than $54,409 a year and half less, against $62,118 across Perry County; 30% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Perry County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 4.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Du Quoin is a small city in Perry County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values are modest. Incomes run below the county's, and poverty is more common than in most places. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn hot, with a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and government also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in town are Prysmian Cables and Systems USA, Marshall Browning Hospital and the Du Quoin school district. Few adults hold a four-year degree, most people work outside the home, and the typical trip to work is fairly short. Jobs across the county have been shrinking, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. The DuQuoin State Fairgrounds Racetrack, a race track, is in or beside town. A short drive away are the West Franklin Historical Museum and Pyramid State Recreation Area, a protected area for outdoor time. For a longer outing, Rend Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away.
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- 2,278households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 30%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Perry County had 4,433 jobs in 2025, 4.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 12 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Du Quoin Southeast weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Du Quoin
- Prysmian Cables and Systems USACable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire284
- Marshall Browning HospitalCritical access hospital211FTE
- Du Quoin CUSD 300School district124FTE
- DU QuoinMail and parcel delivery22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 622 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Du Quoin’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 Perry County.
Du Quoin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Du Quoin$112,810
- 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 8 Du Quoin 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.
- Du Quoin12.09%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Du Quoin24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Du Quoin7
Zip codes with a Du Quoin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Du Quoin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.