Golconda, Illinois.
Typical home $130,227 (+4.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$78 (+13%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,220 +4%
- $125,006$130,227 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $59,699 -31%
- $189,925$130,227 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.
- Golconda$684
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Golconda, IL rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Golconda, Pope County, Illinois
Golconda is a city of 630 people in Pope County. Unemployment in Pope County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 32.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pope 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Golconda is a very small city, and its residents are older than in most American towns. Incomes across Pope County sit below the national picture, and homes here are priced modestly. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in the country as a whole.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing many. Across Pope County, Pope Co CUD 1 Schools is the largest workplace. Jobs in the county fell sharply last year, and unemployment is lower than a year ago but still not low. A small number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Lusk Creek and Golconda Marina State Recreation Area are in or beside town, a river and a protected area for time on the water. Mantle Rock Archeological District, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. Winters are cold with little snow, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
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- 247households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 9%work from home
What people in Pope County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pope County had 432 jobs in 2025, 32.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 3 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rosiclare 5NW weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pope County
- Pope Co CUD 1 SchoolsSchool district105FTE
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
- Strong windVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Golconda’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 Pope County.
Golconda home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Golconda$130,227
- 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.
- Golconda9
Zip codes with a Golconda address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Golconda — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.