Stonefort, Illinois.
Typical home $165,256 (+0.9% in a year). Carbondale-Marion, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$385 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,461 +1%
- $163,796$165,256 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,194 +14%
- $145,063$165,256 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.
- Stonefort$867
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Stonefort, IL rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stonefort, Saline County, Illinois
Stonefort is a village of 224 people in Saline County. Unemployment in Saline County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Saline 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stonefort is a very small village in Saline County, in the southern tip of Illinois. Homes here are priced well below what many American towns see, and household incomes across the county run below the national picture. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold while summers turn hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Saline County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Ferrell Hospital and Harrisburg Medical Center. The county has lost a few jobs over the past year, and the typical trip to work is long, so many people drive some distance to their jobs.
Things to do. Shawnee National Forest, a protected area, is a short drive away, as are Burden Falls Wilderness and Bay Creek Wilderness, both protected areas with quiet trails. Carrier Mills Archaeological District, also a short drive off, is a site that tells of the people who lived here long ago. Lake of Egypt, a lake, is a longer drive away.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 33 mintypical commute
What people in Saline County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Saline County had 8,189 jobs in 2025, 1.4% 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, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saline County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters312
- Ferrell HospitalCritical access hospital250FTE
- Harrisburg Medical CenterGeneral hospital236FTE
- Harrisburg CUSD 3School district220FTE
- Southeastern Illinois CollegeTwo-year college146
- Eldorado CUSD 4School district104FTE
- Kroger Louisville KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores89
- D&D Electric, LLC Warehouse and FieldElectrical contractors84
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,673 people in all across the county; Stonefort has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stonefort’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 Saline County and the Carbondale-Marion, IL metro.
Stonefort home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stonefort$165,256
- 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.
- Stonefort6
Zip codes with a Stonefort address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stonefort — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.