Good Hope, Illinois.
Typical home $120,715 (+7.5% in a year). Macomb, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$29 (+5%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $8,459 +8%
- $112,256$120,715 since Sep 2025
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.
- Good Hope$634
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Good Hope, IL rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Good Hope, McDonough County, Illinois
Good Hope is a village of 363 people in McDonough County. Half its households earn more than $73,636 a year and half less, against $52,795 across McDonough County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in McDonough County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in McDonough 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Good Hope is a very small village in McDonough County, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run well above the county's, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and snow is a regular part of the season. Summers turn warm, with July the warmest month, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across McDonough County, the largest workplaces include Western Illinois University, Pella Corporation Macomb Operations and Mcdonough District Hospital. Commutes are fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Argyle Lake State Park is a protected area for time outdoors, and Spring Lake Park is a garden. Hanson Field, a stadium, is also close by. Farther afield, Carthage Jail is a museum, and Little Swan Lake is a reservoir.
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- 186households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in McDonough County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McDonough County had 9,955 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 21 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Prairie City 2S weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McDonough County
- Western Illinois UniversityUniversity or college1,314
- Pella Corporation Macomb OperationsWindows and window frames, vinyl, manufacturing483
- Mcdonough District HospitalGeneral hospital412FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters321
- Macomb CUSD 185School district306FTE
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores166
- Bushnell Prairie City CUSD 170School district152FTE
- Mosaic MacombIntellectual and developmental disability intermediate care facilities142
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 36 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,088 people in all across the county; Good Hope has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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 windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Good Hope’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 McDonough County and the Macomb, IL metro.
Good Hope home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Good Hope$120,715
- 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.
Zip codes with a Good Hope address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Good Hope — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.