Royalton, Illinois.
Typical home $84,991 (+18.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$76 (+21%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,235 +18%
- $71,756$84,991 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $12,982 -13%
- $97,972$84,991 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.
- Royalton$446
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Royalton, IL rose 18.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Royalton, Franklin County, Illinois
Royalton is a village of 1,068 people in Franklin County. Half its households earn more than $59,219 a year and half less, against $56,740 across Franklin County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Franklin County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Franklin 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Royalton is a small village in Franklin County, in southern Illinois. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and adults here are younger than in many small towns.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. Across Franklin County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Franklin Hospital and several school districts, among them Frankfort CUSD. Unemployment in the county has eased over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier, and a typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. A short drive away are the West Franklin Historical Museum and the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds Racetrack, a race track. The Little Muddy River is also close by for time outdoors. Farther afield, Rend Lake is a large reservoir that makes a good day out. Winters are cold with some snow, summers are hot, and the year is fairly wet.
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- 514households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
What people in Franklin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 9,002 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 12 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Du Quoin Southeast weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Franklin County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters293
- Frankfort CUSD 168School district237FTE
- Benton CCSD 47School district142FTE
- Christopher USD 99School district134FTE
- Franklin HospitalCritical access hospital118FTE
- Rend Lake Conservancy DistrictWater treatment and distribution97
- Sesser-Valier CUSD 196School district86FTE
- Crownline BoatsBoat yards85
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,106 people in all across the county; Royalton 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Royalton’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 Franklin County.
Royalton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Royalton$84,991
- 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.
- Royalton5
Zip codes with a Royalton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Royalton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.