Makanda, Illinois.
Typical home $193,022 (+5.1% in a year). Carbondale-Marion, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$554 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,349 +5%
- $183,673$193,022 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,540 +31%
- $147,482$193,022 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.
- Makanda$1,013
- 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 Makanda, IL rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Makanda, Jackson County, Illinois
Makanda is a village of 547 people in Jackson County. Half its households earn more than $79,000 a year and half less, against $48,763 across Jackson County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 9.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Makanda is a small village in Jackson County, home to an older population than most places, with a median age well above the national figure. Most homes are lived in by their owners, incomes run well above the county's, and a larger share of adults hold a four-year degree than in many towns of its size. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm, with plenty of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Some people work from home. Across Jackson County, the largest workplaces include Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Memorial Hospital of Carbondale and Help At Home. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. Giant City State Park is a protected area in or beside town, and Cedar Lake, a reservoir, is just as close. A short drive away, Little Grassy Lake offers another place by the water, and Trail of Tears State Forest is a protected area for walking among trees. Giant City Stone Fort Site, an archaeological site, also lies in or beside town.
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- 238households
- 66%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 10%work from home
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 27,609 jobs in 2025, 9.3% 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 Jackson County
- Southern Illinois University-CarbondaleUniversity or college5,046
- Memorial Hospital of CarbondaleGeneral hospital1,098FTE
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical677
- University HousingUniversities586
- Facilities and Energy Management (FEM)Universities499
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters307
- Samron Midwest ContractingPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction245
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters244
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 52 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,601 people in all across the county; Makanda has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Makanda’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 Jackson County and the Carbondale-Marion, IL metro.
Makanda home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Makanda$193,022
- 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.
- Makanda14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Makanda address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Makanda — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.