Thompsonville, Illinois.
Typical home $158,294 (+5.9% in a year). Carbondale-Marion, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$333 (+67%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,791 +6%
- $149,503$158,294 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $5,972 -4%
- $164,266$158,294 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.
- Thompsonville$831
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Thompsonville, IL rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Thompsonville, Franklin County, Illinois
Thompsonville is a village of 486 people in Franklin County. Half its households earn more than $46,058 a year and half less, against $56,740 across Franklin County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Thompsonville is a very small village in Franklin County, in southern Illinois. Household incomes here run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. A four-year degree is held by only a small part of the adult population, and homes are valued at a modest level.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels also employing many. The typical commute is a long one, and very few people work from home. Across Franklin County, the biggest employers include Walmart, Franklin Hospital and the Frankfort school district, and unemployment has eased over the past year even as the county has lost a few jobs.
Things to do. Several outdoor places lie a longer drive away. Shawnee National Forest is the best known, a large protected area of woods and hills. Rend Lake is a reservoir, and Lake of Egypt is a lake, both suited to time on the water. Winters are cold, with summers that turn quite warm, so the lakes and trails are most comfortable in the milder seasons.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
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 41° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Benton North weather station, 12 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; Thompsonville has one 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 windVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery 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 Thompsonville’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 and the Carbondale-Marion, IL metro.
Thompsonville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Thompsonville$158,294
- 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.
- Thompsonville6
Zip codes with a Thompsonville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Thompsonville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.