Marine, Illinois.
Typical home $264,997 (+9.3% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$797 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,448 +9%
- $242,550$264,997 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,460 +40%
- $189,538$264,997 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.
- Marine$1,391
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Marine, IL rose 9.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marine, Madison County, Illinois
Marine is a village of 912 people in Madison County. Half its households earn more than $76,544 a year and half less, against $75,793 across Madison County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Madison County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marine is a small village in Madison County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners, well above what you would expect in a larger town. Household incomes sit just above the county's, and relatively few people live below the poverty line. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might find in the wider region.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades close behind. Across Madison County, some of the largest workplaces are Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, World Wide Technology and Edwardsville CUSD 7. The usual trip to work is a moderate one, and a modest number of people do their jobs from home.
Things to do. The bigger attractions are a longer drive away, mostly toward St. Louis. Cahokia, an archaeological site, is the best known, and Gateway Arch National Park and the Missouri Botanical Garden are also within reach for a day out. Winters are cold with some snow, and summers get hot, so the seasons shape most plans.
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- 397households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 107,517 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more 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, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison County
- Southern Illinois University-EdwardsvilleUniversity or college2,233
- World Wide TechnologySoftware, computer, packaged, merchant wholesalers1,373
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical1,275
- J.F. ElectricElectrical contractors1,200
- Edwardsville CUSD 7School district1,030FTE
- Anderson HospitalGeneral hospital854FTE
- Collinsville CUSD 10School district844FTE
- Phillips 66 - Wood River RefineryCrude oil refining834
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 277 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 39,988 people in all across the county; Marine has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marine’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 Madison County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Marine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marine$264,997
- 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 Marine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.