Marshall, Illinois.
Typical home $178,267 (+9.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$467 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,370 +9%
- $162,897$178,267 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,047 +24%
- $143,220$178,267 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.
- Marshall$936
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Marshall, IL rose 9.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marshall, Clark County, Illinois
Marshall is a city of 3,947 people in Clark County. Half its households earn more than $76,250 a year and half less, against $72,927 across Clark County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Clark County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marshall is a small city and the seat of Clark County in eastern Illinois. Household incomes here run a little above the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners. A four-year degree is held by a minority of adults, and winters are cold and snowy while summers turn warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and other services close behind. Among the largest workplaces in Marshall are ZF, which makes air bag assemblies, the Marshall school district, and Marshall Rehabilitation & Nursing Center. The typical commute is short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Lincoln Trail State Park, a protected area for walking and time outdoors, is a short drive away. Harlan Hall, a theatre, is in or beside town. For a longer outing, the Swope Art Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 1,898households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clark County had 4,304 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 19 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paris Stp weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marshall
- ZF Active Safety and Electronics USAir bag assemblies manufacturing496
- Marshall CUSD 2CSchool district213FTE
- Marshall Rehabilitation & Nursing CenterNursing homes69
- Meridian Senior Living623312 assisted living facilities for the elderly28
- MarshallMail and parcel delivery24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 617 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat 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 Marshall’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 Clark County.
Marshall home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marshall$178,267
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Marshall listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Marshall19.29%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Marshall25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Marshall10
Zip codes with a Marshall address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marshall — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.