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Red Bud, Illinois.

Typical home $255,373 (+9.4% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.

What it costs per month · Red Bud $1,340/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$749 (+126%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $21,986 +9%
$233,387$255,373 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $73,665 +41%
$181,708$255,373 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Red Bud $1,340 Illinois $1,553 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Red Bud$1,340
  • Illinois$1,553
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.

Typical home values in Red Bud, IL rose 9.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Living in Red Bud, Monroe County, Illinois

Red Bud is a city of 3,804 people in Monroe County. Half its households earn more than $71,850 a year and half less, against $102,880 across Monroe County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Monroe County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 3,804 in the 2020 census; median age 39.7
Household income $71,850 the median, give or take $8,187 · Monroe County: $102,880
Unemployment 2.5% Monroe County, August 2026; 3.3% a year before
Homes 77% lived in by their owners; 23% rented

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Red Bud is a small city in Monroe County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes here run well below the county's, and the people are neither especially young nor old. Winters are cold, with only a little snow, and summers get hot; the year is fairly wet overall.

Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing close behind. Among the biggest workplaces in town are Red Bud Regional Hospital, the Red Bud school district and RED BUD Industries, which makes coil winding and cutting machinery. Commutes are fairly short, and some people work from home.

Things to do. A short drive away, Illinois Caverns State Natural Area is a protected area, and Baldwin Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area offers open land and water. Farther off, a longer drive brings you to Fort de Chartres, a historic fort, and to the Kaskaskia River.

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  • 1,635households
  • 24%of adults have a degree
  • 5%below the poverty line
  • 23 mintypical commute
  • 10%work from home

What residents work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care33%
  • Manufacturing16%
  • Shops (retail)10%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities8%
  • Building trades6%
  • Professional and business services6%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Monroe County had 8,577 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 40° and 24°; warmest in July, 89° and 68° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 40° 24° F M A M J J 89° 68° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 40° and 24°; warmest in July, 89° and 68° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 40° 24° F M A M J J 89° 68° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 4 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kaskaskia River Navigation Lock weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Red Bud

  1. Red BUD IndustriesCoil winding and cutting machinery, metalworking, manufacturing238
  2. Red Bud Regional HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical200
  3. Red Bud CUSD 132School district151FTE
  4. Secon Rubber and PlasticsCushions, carpet and rug, urethane and other foam plastics, manufacturing119
  5. UltrasiteSkids, metal, manufacturing115
  6. Total TitaniumOphthalmic instruments and apparatus manufacturing40
  7. Perandoe Spec Educ DistrictSchool district37FTE
  8. Construction Supply - Red Bud YardHome centers, building materials27

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 759 people in all. School districts come 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

  1. Strong windVery high
  2. Winter weatherVery high
  3. TornadoesVery high
  4. Heat wavesRelatively high
  5. EarthquakesRelatively high
  6. HailRelatively high

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Red Bud’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 Monroe County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.

Red Bud home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Red Bud $255,373 Illinois $295,943 United States $366,157
$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Red Bud$255,373
  • Illinois$295,943
  • United States$366,157
Property tax, 2026 roll $2,977/yr median bill inside Red Bud, effective 1.35% of estimated value — current assessment rolls, AssessorSearch Data Lab, quality-gated against the county's official figures

Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.

Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Red Bud listings — the market is roughly in balance.

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.

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Market heat, inside the city limits

Share of listings with a price cut

The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.

25.0% 27.5% 30.0% 32.5% 2026 Red Bud 33.46% United States 26.36%
25.0% 27.5% 30.0% 32.5% 2026
  • Red Bud33.46%
  • United States26.36%

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

5 10 15 20 2024 2025 2026 Red Bud 21
5 10 15 20 2024 2025 2026
  • Red Bud21

New listings per month

Sellers arriving at the market.

7 8 8 2026 Red Bud 7
7 8 8 2026
  • Red Bud7

Zip codes with a Red Bud address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Red Bud — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zip codes in Red Bud

Zip Place Population Rent Home value
62278 Red Bud 6,281 — $252,793
62244 Fults 928 — $304,944