Energy, Illinois.
Typical home $161,225 (+2.2% in a year). Carbondale-Marion, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$373 (+79%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,422 +2%
- $157,804$161,225 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,051 +18%
- $137,174$161,225 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.
- Energy$846
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Energy, IL rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Energy, Williamson County, Illinois
Energy is a village of 974 people in Williamson County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Williamson County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Williamson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Energy is a small village in Williamson County, in southern Illinois, with a population that stays small even by the standards of villages. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn hot, with plenty of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and banks, insurance and property. Across Williamson County, the largest workplaces include Aisin MFG. Illinois, which makes sunroofs and automotive parts, the Veterans Health Administration, and Herrin Hospital. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs. Commutes are fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Crab Orchard Lake, a reservoir, and Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, are both a short drive away. The Little Muddy River is also close by. For a longer outing, Giant City State Park and the Shawnee National Forest are a longer drive away.
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- 20%of adults have a degree
- 21 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Williamson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Williamson County had 29,573 jobs in 2025, 3.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 11 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carbondale Sewage Plt weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Williamson County
- Aisin Mfg. IllinoisSunroofs and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing1,238
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,072
- Herrin HospitalGeneral hospital743FTE
- Marion CUSD 2School district523FTE
- Aisin Light MetalsBumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing400
- General DynamicsAmmunition loading and assembling plants398
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters396
- John A Logan CollegeTwo-year college388
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 65 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,335 people in all across the county; Energy has one of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), hospitals 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Energy’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 Williamson County and the Carbondale-Marion, IL metro.
Energy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Energy$161,225
- 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.
- Energy5
Zip codes with a Energy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Energy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.