Raleigh, Illinois.
Typical home $144,982 (+4.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$365 (+92%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $5,914 +4%
- $139,068$144,982 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,182 +21%
- $119,801$144,982 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.
- Raleigh$761
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Raleigh, IL rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Raleigh, Saline County, Illinois
Raleigh is a village of 284 people in Saline County. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Saline County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Saline 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Raleigh is a very small village in Saline County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values here are modest, and incomes across Saline County sit below the national picture. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and only a small number of residents work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Saline County, the largest workplaces include Walmart, Ferrell Hospital and Harrisburg Medical Center. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Tunnel Hill State Trail is a protected area a short drive away, and Sahara Woods State Fish and Wildlife Area, also a short drive away, offers more open ground to explore. Shawnee National Forest, a protected area, is a longer drive away. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 5%work from home
What people in Saline County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Saline County had 8,189 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Harrisburg weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saline County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters312
- Ferrell HospitalCritical access hospital250FTE
- Harrisburg Medical CenterGeneral hospital236FTE
- Harrisburg CUSD 3School district220FTE
- Southeastern Illinois CollegeTwo-year college146
- Eldorado CUSD 4School district104FTE
- Kroger Louisville KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores89
- D&D Electric, LLC Warehouse and FieldElectrical contractors84
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,673 people in all across the county; Raleigh has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Raleigh’s census tracts, 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 Saline County.
Raleigh home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Raleigh$144,982
- 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 Raleigh address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Raleigh — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.