Oakdale, Illinois.
Typical home $193,222 (+14.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$560 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,759 +15%
- $168,463$193,222 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,349 +34%
- $143,873$193,222 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.
- Oakdale$1,014
- 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 Oakdale, IL rose 14.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oakdale, Washington County, Illinois
Oakdale is a village of 199 people in Washington County. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% 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 people in Washington 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oakdale is a very small village in Washington County, Illinois, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Few residents have a four-year degree, and the share living below the poverty line is small. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and farming also employing many. Almost nobody works from home. Across Washington County, the largest workplaces include Nascote's bumper assembly plants, Antolin Southern Illinois, which makes motor vehicle interiors, and Washington County Hospital.
Things to do. Washington County State Recreation Area is a protected area a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Big Muddy River and to Carlyle Lake, a large reservoir. Charter Oak Schoolhouse, a museum, is also a longer drive from the village.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What people in Washington County 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, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- 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
- GDB InternationalPigments, paint, merchant wholesalers131
- Washington County HospitalCritical access hospital101FTE
- Nots Logistics90
- West Washington Co CUD 10 SchoolsSchool district79FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,323 people in all across the county; Oakdale has none of its own. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oakdale’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.
Oakdale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oakdale$193,222
- 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 Oakdale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oakdale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.