New Douglas, Illinois.
Typical home $84,670 (-4.8% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$214 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,313 -5%
- $88,983$84,670 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $9,173 +12%
- $75,497$84,670 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.
- New Douglas$444
- 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 New Douglas, IL fell 4.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in New Douglas, Madison County, Illinois
New Douglas is a village of 350 people in Madison County. Half its households earn more than $50,000 a year and half less, against $75,793 across Madison County. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. New Douglas is a very small village in Madison County, Illinois, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and homes are modest in price. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall steadily across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Many people drive some distance to work, and few work from home. Across Madison County, some of the largest workplaces are Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, Edwardsville CUSD 7 and World Wide Technology, and unemployment in the county has eased over the past year.
Things to do. Carlyle Lake is a large reservoir, a longer drive away, popular for time on the water. Lewis and Clark State Historic Site is a museum, also a longer drive away, and tells the story of the expedition that set out from this region. The Gardens at SIUE is a botanical garden, a longer drive away, and a quiet place to walk.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 31 mintypical commute
- 8%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 38° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hillsboro weather station, 16 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; New Douglas 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 high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in New Douglas’ 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 Madison County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
New Douglas home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- New Douglas$84,670
- 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.
Zip codes with a New Douglas address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls New Douglas — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.