Galatia, Illinois.
Typical home $128,321 (+6.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$323 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,409 +6%
- $120,912$128,321 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,962 +16%
- $110,360$128,321 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.
- Galatia$674
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Galatia, IL rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Galatia, Saline County, Illinois
Galatia is a village of 827 people in Saline County. Half its households earn more than $48,258 a year and half less, against $53,117 across Saline County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Saline County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Saline County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Galatia is a small village in Saline County, home to fewer people than most towns, and most of the homes here are lived in by their owners. Incomes run a little below the county's, and a typical home costs well under what it does in many parts of the country. Not many adults hold a four-year degree, and residents are of middle age on the whole. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing many. Across Saline County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Ferrell Hospital and Harrisburg Medical Center. The trip to work is a fairly long one, and few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Tunnel Hill State Trail and Sahara Woods State Fish and Wildlife Area, both protected areas, are a short drive away. For a longer outing, Shawnee National Forest is a protected area a longer drive away, and Millstone Bluff, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Saline County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Saline County had 8,189 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Harrisburg weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saline County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters312
- Ferrell HospitalCritical access hospital250FTE
- Harrisburg Medical CenterGeneral hospital236FTE
- Harrisburg CUSD 3School district220FTE
- Southeastern Illinois CollegeTwo-year college146
- Eldorado CUSD 4School district104FTE
- Kroger Louisville KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores89
- D&D Electric, LLC Warehouse and FieldElectrical contractors84
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,673 people in all across the county; Galatia has one 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold 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 Galatia’s 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 Saline County.
Galatia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Galatia$128,321
- 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.
- Galatia8
Zip codes with a Galatia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Galatia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.