Herrin, Illinois.
Typical home $111,620 (-3.8% in a year), asking rent $938 . Carbondale-Marion, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$252 (+76%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,463 -4%
- $116,083$111,620 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,291 +17%
- $95,329$111,620 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.
- Herrin$586
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Herrin, IL fell 3.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Herrin, Williamson County, Illinois
Herrin is a city of 12,352 people in Williamson County. Half its households earn more than $59,975 a year and half less, against $65,604 across Williamson County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Williamson County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Herrin is a small city in Williamson County, in the southern part of Illinois. Residents are somewhat older than in many places, and household incomes run below the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values and rents are modest. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and banks, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces in Herrin are Herrin Hospital, Herrin CUSD 4 and Target. The typical commute is fairly short, and a small share of people work from home. Unemployment in the county has eased over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Crab Orchard Lake, a reservoir, and Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, are both a short drive away, as is the Little Muddy River. A longer drive brings you to Shawnee National Forest, a large protected area, and to Giant City State Park.
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- 5,559households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Williamson County had 29,573 jobs in 2025, 3.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 11 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carbondale Sewage Plt weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Herrin
- Herrin HospitalGeneral hospital743FTE
- Herrin CUSD 4School district269FTE
- TargetDiscount department stores144
- Shawnee Senior LivingSkilled nursing facilities115
- WalmartDiscount department stores84
- Kroger Louisville KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores82
- Summit School ServicesSchool and employee bus transportation44
- Koerner Distributor, Inc. - CartervilleBeverages, alcoholic, merchant wholesalers38
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,710 people in all. Hospitals come 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 windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat 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 Herrin’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 Williamson County and the Carbondale-Marion, IL metro.
Herrin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Herrin$111,620
- 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 4 Herrin listings, and the typical home goes pending in 15 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Herrin24.68%
- 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.
- Herrin55
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Herrin15
Zip codes with a Herrin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Herrin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.