Roodhouse, Illinois.
Typical home $76,078 (-12.8% in a year). Jacksonville, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $31 (-7%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,216 -13%
- $87,294$76,078 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $33,933 -31%
- $110,011$76,078 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.
- Roodhouse$399
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Roodhouse, IL fell 12.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Roodhouse, Greene County, Illinois
Roodhouse is a city of 1,578 people in Greene County. Half its households earn more than $52,604 a year and half less, against $62,192 across Greene County; 26% of its people live below the poverty line. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Greene County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Roodhouse is a small city in Greene County, Illinois, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. The population is older than in much of the country, and incomes run below the county's, with a large share of residents living below the poverty line. Homes here are among the more affordable you will find, and winters are cold, with some snow, while summers turn warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Across Greene County, some of the largest workplaces are the school districts of Carrollton and North Greene, and Thomas H Boyd Critical ACC Hospital. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Few adults hold a four-year degree, a small number work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Beaver Dam State Park is a protected area and Lake Jacksonville is a reservoir, both a longer drive away. Waverly Lake, another reservoir, is also a longer drive away. Those interested in the region's long history can visit Koster Site, an archaeological site, though it too takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 621households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greene County had 2,255 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 18 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the White Hall East weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greene County
- Carrollton CUSD 1School district556FTE
- North Greene CUSD 3School district155FTE
- EvercaresSkilled nursing facilities125
- Thomas H Boyd Critical ACC HospitalCritical access hospital111FTE
- Bunn CommercialCoffee filters made from purchased paper85
- Greenfield CUSD 10School district81FTE
- Hanor Company of WisconsinAgriculture62
- Zoetis - White HallVaccines manufacturing39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 528 people in all across the county; Roodhouse has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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 windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Roodhouse’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Greene County and the Jacksonville, IL metro.
Roodhouse home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Roodhouse$76,078
- 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.
- Roodhouse10
Zip codes with a Roodhouse address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Roodhouse — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.