Nashville, Illinois.
Typical home $180,953 (+6.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$536 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,621 +6%
- $170,332$180,953 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,566 +32%
- $137,387$180,953 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.
- Nashville$950
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Nashville, IL rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Nashville, Washington County, Illinois
Nashville is a city of 3,105 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $63,170 a year and half less, against $78,224 across Washington County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Nashville is a small city and the seat of Washington County in southern Illinois. Residents are older than in many places, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than across the country. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Manufacturing has a strong presence in town, and among the largest workplaces are Nascote, which assembles automotive bumpers, Antolin Nashville, which makes motor vehicle interior systems, and Washington County Hospital. Jobs across the county have grown slightly over the past year, and unemployment has eased a little compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Washington County State Recreation Area and Crooked Creek are both a short drive away. Carlyle Lake, a large reservoir, is a longer drive and a popular choice for boating and fishing. Rend Lake, another reservoir, and the Charter Oak Schoolhouse museum are also a longer drive from town.
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- 1,311households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 6,218 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 12 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Nashville East weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nashville
- Nascote- Enterprise AveBumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing843
- Nascote - Mockingbird Road 2Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing281
- Antolin Southern Illinois, LLC (dba Antolin Nashville)Motor vehicle interior systems manufacturing208
- Nascote Industries - Mockingbird RoadBumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing148
- Washington County HospitalCritical access hospital101FTE
- Nots Logistics90
- Axiom Gardens of NashvilleSkilled nursing facilities66
- Nashville CCSD 49School district61FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,837 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Nashville’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 Washington County.
Nashville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Nashville$180,953
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Nashville10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Nashville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Nashville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.