Godfrey, Illinois.
Typical home $220,144 (+5.7% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$634 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,964 +6%
- $208,180$220,144 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,347 +34%
- $164,798$220,144 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.
- Godfrey$1,155
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Godfrey, IL rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Godfrey, Madison County, Illinois
Godfrey is a village of 17,825 people in Madison County. Half its households earn more than $94,543 a year and half less, against $75,793 across Madison County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Madison County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Godfrey is a village in Madison County, Illinois, where residents are older than in most American communities and nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than is typical. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month, and summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, manufacturing and retail. The largest workplaces in Godfrey include Lewis and Clark Community College, Walmart and Beverly Farm Foundation. Commutes are of moderate length, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Piasa, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. The Illinois River is a longer drive, as is Cahokia, another archaeological site. Gateway Arch National Park and the Missouri Botanical Garden are also a longer drive away.
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- 7,452households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 107,517 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alton - Melvin Price L&d weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Godfrey
- Lewis and Clark Community CollegeTwo-year college553
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters335
- Beverly Farm FoundationIntellectual and developmental disability homes271
- Schnuck MarketsSupermarket groc not convenience store105
- Liberty Tire Recycling - GodfreyRods, hard rubber, manufacturing98
- The United Methodist Village Retirement CommunitiesRest homes without nursing care94
- SunriseUsed household and office goods moving55
- Nexus at GodfreySkilled nursing facilities42
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,802 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Godfrey’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 Madison County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Godfrey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Godfrey$220,144
- 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 6 Godfrey listings, and the typical home goes pending in 6 days — 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.
- Godfrey17.18%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Godfrey6
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Godfrey43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Godfrey26
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Godfrey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Godfrey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.