Valmeyer, Illinois.
Typical home $256,916 (+2.4% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$763 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,975 +2%
- $250,941$256,916 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,911 +43%
- $180,005$256,916 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.
- Valmeyer$1,348
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Valmeyer, IL rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Valmeyer, Monroe County, Illinois
Valmeyer is a village of 1,233 people in Monroe County. Half its households earn more than $94,821 a year and half less, against $102,880 across Monroe County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Monroe County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Valmeyer is a small village in Monroe County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes here run a little below the county's, and a small share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a modest amount of snow and plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Valmeyer are the National Archives and Records Administration, MAR (A Qualfon Company), a printing business, and the Valmeyer school district. Unemployment in Monroe County has eased over the past year, and the county has added jobs. Commutes are fairly long for many, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Meramec River is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Cahokia, an archaeological site, and to Gateway Arch National Park. The Saint Louis Zoo is also a longer drive away, and makes a good day out.
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- 421households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Monroe County had 8,577 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 9 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Festus weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Valmeyer
- National Archives and Records AdministrationFederal government73
- MAR (A Qualfon Company)Offset printing64
- Valmeyer CUSD 3School district59FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 64 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and school districts 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of ValmeyerRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Valmeyer’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Monroe County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Valmeyer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Valmeyer$256,916
- 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.
- Valmeyer10
Zip codes with a Valmeyer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Valmeyer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.