Murphysboro, Illinois.
Typical home $120,595 (+4.5% in a year). Carbondale-Marion, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$368 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,183 +4%
- $115,413$120,595 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,689 +39%
- $86,907$120,595 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.
- Murphysboro$633
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Murphysboro, IL rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Murphysboro, Jackson County, Illinois
Murphysboro is a city of 7,093 people in Jackson County. Half its households earn more than $44,154 a year and half less, against $48,763 across Jackson County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% 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 residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Murphysboro is a small city in Jackson County, southern Illinois. Its residents are of middling age, and incomes run below the county's, with a fair share of households living below the poverty line. Homes are split about evenly between owners and renters, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers turn hot by July, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and government. Among the largest workplaces in town are Walmart, Penn Aluminum International, which draws and extrudes aluminum tube, and Saint Joseph Memorial Hospital. Jobs across Jackson County grew over the past year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year ago. Most people have a short commute, and a small share work from home.
Things to do. Lake Murphysboro State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are Kinkaid Lake, a reservoir, and Saluki Stadium. For a longer outing, Giant City State Park is a longer drive away.
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- 3,373households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents 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 42° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carbondale Southern Il Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Murphysboro
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters244
- Penn Aluminum International LLC - Murphysboro, IlAluminum tube made by drawing or extruding purchased aluminum225
- Saint Joseph Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital206FTE
- SilkwormScreen printing apparel and textile products60
- Kroger Louisville KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores59
- A&W Plumbing & HeatingPlumbing and heating contractors58
- Fager-McGee Commercial ConstructionInstitutional building construction general contractors41
- RK HoldingsFarm supply store41
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,060 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Murphysboro’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 Jackson County and the Carbondale-Marion, IL metro.
Murphysboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Murphysboro$120,595
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Murphysboro listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Murphysboro24.30%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Murphysboro52
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Murphysboro15
Zip codes with a Murphysboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Murphysboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.