Ozark, Illinois.
Typical home $199,520 (-7.3% in a year). Carbondale-Marion, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$514 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $15,648 -7%
- $215,169$199,520 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,854 +16%
- $171,666$199,520 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.
- Ozark$1,047
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Ozark, IL fell 7.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ozark, Johnson County, Illinois
The Census does not count Ozark on its own, so the figures here are Johnson County's. Half the county's households earn more than $62,528 a year and half less; 18% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 82% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Johnson County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 11.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Johnson County work in schools and health care, then government.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ozark is a small town in Johnson County, in the southern part of Illinois. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and a noticeable share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year, with only modest snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, government, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Jobs grew across Johnson County last year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year before. Relatively few people work from home, so the daily drive to work is a regular part of life.
Things to do. Shawnee National Forest, a protected area a short drive away, offers wooded land for walking and watching wildlife. Lake of Egypt, a lake a short drive away, is a good place to spend time on the water. Millstone Bluff, an archaeological site also a short drive away, is a quiet place to think about the people who lived in this region long ago.
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- 4,101households
- 41.4median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Johnson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Johnson County had 2,715 jobs in 2025, 11.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 7 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dixon Springs Agric Ctr weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Johnson County
- Illinois Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions332
- Goreville CUD 1 SchoolsSchool district83FTE
- Johnson County GovernmentBoards of supervisors, county and local82
- Vienna HSD 133School district54FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture42
- Johnson County Government/CourthouseCircuit courts33
- Vienna SD 55School district33FTE
- New Simpson Hill SD 32School district26FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 492 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Johnson County, 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 Johnson County and the Carbondale-Marion, IL metro.
Ozark home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ozark$199,520
- 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.
- Ozark5
Zip codes with a Ozark address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ozark — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.