Simpson, Illinois.
Typical home $190,084 (+7.2% in a year). Carbondale-Marion, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$552 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,693 +7%
- $177,392$190,084 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,115 +29%
- $146,970$190,084 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.
- Simpson$998
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Simpson, IL rose 7.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Simpson, Pope County, Illinois
Simpson is a village of 44 people in Pope County. Unemployment in Pope County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 32.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pope County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Simpson is a small village in Pope County in southern Illinois, where residents know one another. Winters are cold but bring only light snow, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, or in transport, warehousing and utilities. Across Pope County, jobs have become considerably scarcer in recent times, and more people are out of work than before.
Things to do. Shawnee National Forest, a protected area, is a short drive away and is one of the region's best-known wooded landscapes. Dixon Springs State Park, also a short drive away, and Millstone Bluff, an archaeological site a short drive away, make a good day out.
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What people in Pope County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pope County had 432 jobs in 2025, 32.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 7 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dixon Springs Agric Ctr weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pope County
- Pope Co CUD 1 SchoolsSchool district105FTE
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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Simpson’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 Pope County and the Carbondale-Marion, IL metro.
Simpson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Simpson$190,084
- 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 Simpson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Simpson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.