South Roxana, Illinois.
Typical home $89,825 (-0.1% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$229 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $112 -0%
- $89,937$89,825 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,351 +17%
- $76,473$89,825 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.
- South Roxana$471
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in South Roxana, IL fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in South Roxana, Madison County, Illinois
South Roxana is a village of 1,891 people in Madison County. Half its households earn more than $60,214 a year and half less, against $75,793 across Madison County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Madison County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. South Roxana is a small village in Madison County, Illinois, with a younger population than many small towns and household incomes well below the county's. More people here live below the poverty line than is typical, and homes are mostly lived in by their owners, with typical home values on the low side. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are hot and July is the warmest, and rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Many residents work in restaurants and hotels, in transport and warehousing, in professional and business services, and in shops. The largest workplaces in South Roxana include Wieser Concrete Products, which makes precast concrete wall panels, and Mike's, which builds and repairs towboats. Madison County has been adding jobs, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year ago. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Piasa, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Cahokia, another archaeological site, and to Gateway Arch National Park. The Missouri Botanical Garden and the Saint Louis Art Museum are also a longer drive away.
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- 850households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 107,517 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alton - Melvin Price L&d weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in South Roxana
- Wieser Concrete ProductsArchitectural wall panels, precast concrete, manufacturing36
- Mike'sTowboat building and repairing28
- Mike's IndustrialMotor controls, electric, merchant wholesalers27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 91 people in all. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- HailVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in South Roxana’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Madison County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
South Roxana home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- South Roxana$89,825
- 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 South Roxana address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls South Roxana — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.