Moro, Illinois.
Typical home $239,345 (+1.5% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$676 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,470 +1%
- $235,875$239,345 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,088 +32%
- $181,257$239,345 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.
- Moro$1,256
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Moro, IL rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Moro, Madison County, Illinois
Moro, in Madison County, had 397 people in the 2020 census. 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 people in Madison 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Moro is a very small community in Madison County, Illinois, where people tend to know one another. The population is young for an older-homeowner audience's expectations of a small town, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Homes here are typically valued well below what the county's incomes would suggest, and the county's incomes are healthy. Winters are cold, with January highs just above freezing and lows well below it, while July is warm and summers turn hot. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Across Madison County, some of the largest workplaces are Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, World Wide Technology and Edwardsville CUSD 7. Commutes are short, and almost no one works from home. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Piasa, an archaeological site, is only a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Cahokia, another archaeological site, and to the Gateway Arch, a park on the St. Louis riverfront. The Missouri Botanical Garden is also within a longer drive, for a day among gardens.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Madison County 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 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alton - Melvin Price L&d weather station, 8 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; Moro 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of MoroRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Moro’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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.
Moro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Moro$239,345
- 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.
- Moro7
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Moro4
Zip codes with a Moro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Moro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.