Fairview Heights, Illinois.
Typical home $196,698 (+1.2% in a year), asking rent $1,287 . St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$513 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,422 +1%
- $194,276$196,698 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,330 +18%
- $167,368$196,698 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.
- Fairview Heights$1,032
- 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 Fairview Heights, IL rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Fairview Heights runs $289/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $336 in Oct 2025.
That is $1,576 a month against $1,287 rent: a $1,032 mortgage payment, plus $333 property tax and $211 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Fairview Heights
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,576
- Renting$1,287
- Mortgage only$1,032
Property tax · $333/mo 2.03% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Saint Clair County, IL
Insurance & upkeep · $211/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Fairview Heights, St. Clair County, Illinois
Fairview Heights is a city of 16,706 people in St. Clair County. Half its households earn more than $80,930 a year and half less, against $73,854 across St. Clair County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in St. Clair County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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. Fairview Heights is a city in St. Clair County, Illinois, with a middle-aged population and household incomes above the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a smaller share of people fall below the poverty line than is typical for many communities. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. The year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Fairview Heights are Target, Lowe's and the City of Fairview Heights itself. Across St. Clair County, unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, though there are somewhat fewer jobs than the year before. A typical commute is a moderate one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Cahokia, an archaeological site, and Gateway Arch National Park are both a short drive away, as is World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway, a race track. A longer drive brings you to the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Saint Louis Zoo.
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- 7,221households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Clair County had 89,192 jobs in 2025, 0.9% 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 89° and lows near 69°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cahokia St. Louis Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fairview Heights
- Hoyleton Youth and Family Services - Therapeutic Foster Care Home - ChurchChild welfare services219
- City of Fairview HeightsStreet construction208
- TargetDiscount department stores146
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter133
- Keeley & SonsSurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway111
- Grant CCSD 110School district103FTE
- Maxim Healthcare ServicesHome health care agencies88
- Schnuck MarketsSupermarket groc not convenience store85
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,759 people in all. School districts come 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fairview Heights’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 St. Clair County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Fairview Heights home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairview Heights$196,698
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Fairview Heights listings, and the typical home goes pending in 12 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Fairview Heights25.65%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fairview Heights51
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fairview Heights22
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Fairview Heights$202,137
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Fairview Heights address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairview Heights — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.