Lebanon, Illinois.
Typical home $174,648 (-1.7% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$455 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,042 -2%
- $177,690$174,648 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,405 +16%
- $150,243$174,648 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.
- Lebanon$917
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Lebanon, IL fell 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lebanon, St. Clair County, Illinois
Lebanon is a city of 4,691 people in St. Clair County. Half its households earn more than $88,750 a year and half less, against $73,854 across St. Clair County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in St. Clair County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Clair County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lebanon is a small city in St. Clair County, Illinois, with a household income above the county's and a typical home value that sits well within reach of many buyers. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and the winters are cold, with some snow, while summers turn hot and the year brings steady rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Some of the biggest workplaces in town are McKendree University, Christ Bros. Asphalt and Cedar Ridge Health and Rehab Center. Many people commute a moderate distance, and a sizable number work from home.
Things to do. The St. Louis area is a longer drive away, and it holds most of what draws people out for a day. Gateway Arch National Park is a park beside the river, and the Saint Louis Zoo is a zoo set in Forest Park. Cahokia, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away and is among the best known places in the region.
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- 1,564households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 23%work from home
What people in St. Clair County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Clair County had 89,192 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 11 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Belleville Siu Rsch weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lebanon
- McKendree UniversityUniversity or college365
- Christ Bros. AsphaltPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction250
- Cedar Ridge Health and Rehab CenterNursing homes88
- SodexoFacilities support services80
- Lebanon CUSD 9School district54FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 418 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lebanon’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 St. Clair County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Lebanon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lebanon$174,648
- 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.
- Lebanon13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Lebanon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lebanon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.