Meredosia, Illinois.
Typical home $66,593 (+14.5% in a year). Jacksonville, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$125 (+56%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,440 +15%
- $58,153$66,593 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,381 +12%
- $59,212$66,593 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.
- Meredosia$350
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Meredosia, IL rose 14.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Meredosia, Morgan County, Illinois
Meredosia is a village of 826 people in Morgan County. Half its households earn more than $54,485 a year and half less, against $66,306 across Morgan County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Morgan County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Morgan County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Meredosia is a small village on the Illinois River, home to a quiet community where neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and homes here cost far less than in most of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm, hot days and the year is fairly wet overall.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Morgan County, some of the largest workplaces are Jacksonville Memorial Hospital, Reynolds Consumer Products and Jacksonville Schools. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs. The typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. Meredosia National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area in or beside town, and Meredosia Lake is a short drive away. The Naples Archeological District, also a short drive away, is an archaeological site. For a longer outing, the La Moine River and Siloam Springs State Park are a longer drive away.
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- 355households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
What people in Morgan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morgan County had 14,194 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 21 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Perry Northwest weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morgan County
- Jacksonville Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital553FTE
- Reynolds Consumer Product- West sitePolyethylene film and unlaminated sheet manufacturing482
- Reynolds Consumer ProductsFilm, plastics, manufacturing450
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters416
- Jacksonville SD 117School district393FTE
- Illinois CollegeUniversity or college287
- Hertzberg New MethodBookbinding machines manufacturing210
- Pathway Services UnlimitedGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability205
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 41 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,015 people in all across the county; Meredosia has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Meredosia’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Morgan County and the Jacksonville, IL metro.
Meredosia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Meredosia$66,593
- 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.
- Meredosia9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Meredosia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Meredosia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.