Jerseyville, Illinois.
Typical home $145,850 (+1.8% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$381 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,555 +2%
- $143,295$145,850 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,636 +31%
- $111,214$145,850 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.
- Jerseyville$766
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Jerseyville, IL rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jerseyville, Jersey County, Illinois
Jerseyville is a city of 8,337 people in Jersey County. Half its households earn more than $73,529 a year and half less, against $80,361 across Jersey County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Jersey County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jerseyville is a small city and the seat of Jersey County, with a population on the older side and most homes lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a typical home costs less than in many parts of the country. 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, and others in transport and warehouses, in shops, and in manufacturing. Among the biggest workplaces in town are the Jersey school district, Walmart and the City of Jerseyville. Commutes are of moderate length, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Pere Marquette State Park is a protected area of woods and river bluffs, and the Illinois River is a river within a longer drive. Katy Trail State Park is a long trail that suits walking and cycling, and Piasa is an archaeological site, also a longer drive away.
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- 2,952households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jersey County had 5,105 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 12 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jerseyville Southwest weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jerseyville
- Jersey CUSD 100School district338FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters300
- UDISkilled nursing facilities170
- City of JerseyvilleExecutive offices, federal, state, and local99
- A.L.L.Masonry Construction Co.,IncConstruction84
- Evercare of JerseyvilleSkilled nursing facilities57
- Jerseyville Nursing and Rehabilitation CenterSkilled nursing facilities50
- Villas of Holly Brook - JerseyvilleAssisted living facilities for the elderly47
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 874 people in all. 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jerseyville’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 Jersey County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Jerseyville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jerseyville$145,850
- 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 Jerseyville listings — 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.
- Jerseyville24.97%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jerseyville27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Jerseyville10
Zip codes with a Jerseyville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jerseyville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.