Pomona, Illinois.
Typical home $176,940 (+4.4% in a year). Carbondale-Marion, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$510 (+122%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $7,474 +4%
- $169,466$176,940 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,161 +35%
- $130,779$176,940 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.
- Pomona$929
- 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 Pomona, IL rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pomona, Jackson County, Illinois
Pomona is a township of 794 people in Jackson County. 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 people in Jackson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pomona is a very small township in Jackson County, Illinois, where the pace is quiet and neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are typically worth more than what households in the county can easily match on income, since county household incomes sit on the modest side. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and temperatures often staying well below freezing at night, while summers turn hot, especially in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Across Jackson County, the largest workplaces include Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Memorial Hospital of Carbondale and Help At Home. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year. Commutes are of moderate length, and only a small share of residents work from home.
Things to do. The Pomona Natural Bridge is in or beside town, a protected area that is the closest of the nearby outdoor spots. A short drive away are Giant City State Park, a protected area, and Cedar Lake, a reservoir. Trail of Tears State Forest, also a protected area, is a short drive away as well, making this a convenient base for time outdoors.
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- 11%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Jackson County 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, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Southern Illinois University-CarbondaleUniversity or college5,046
- Memorial Hospital of CarbondaleGeneral hospital1,098FTE
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical677
- University HousingUniversities586
- Facilities and Energy Management (FEM)Universities499
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters307
- Samron Midwest ContractingPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction245
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters244
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 52 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,601 people in all across the county; Pomona has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Jackson County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Pomona home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pomona$176,940
- 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 Pomona address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pomona — 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.