Virden, Illinois.
Typical home $124,871 (+2.2% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$190 (+41%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,709 +2%
- $122,162$124,871 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $2,181 +2%
- $122,690$124,871 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.
- Virden$655
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Virden, IL rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Virden, Macoupin County, Illinois
Virden is a city of 3,231 people in Macoupin County. Half its households earn more than $80,577 a year and half less, against $70,805 across Macoupin County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Macoupin County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Virden is a small city in Macoupin County where most homes are lived in by their owners. Households here earn more than the county's typical household, and the town is somewhat younger than many places its size. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn warm and bring steady rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, the building trades, and banks, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces in town are Lotus, a builder of wind power structures, Sunrise Care and Rehabilitation, a nursing home, and Sloan Implement Company, a store selling outdoor power equipment. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the county has lost some jobs over the past year even as unemployment there has eased.
Things to do. For history, the Lincoln Home National Historic Site and the Old State Capitol State Historic Site are both museums, a longer drive away. For time outdoors, Lake Springfield is a reservoir, also a longer drive away, and the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Garden is a botanical garden at a similar distance.
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- 1,228households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Macoupin County had 9,921 jobs in 2025, 2.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 16 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Virden weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Virden
- LotusWind power structure construction95
- Sunrise Care and RehabilitationNursing homes80
- Sloan Implement CompanyPower equipment stores, outdoor22
- Allied Waste TransportationRefuse collection services21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 218 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
- LightningVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Virden’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 Macoupin County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Virden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Virden$124,871
- 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.
- Virden10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Virden5
Zip codes with a Virden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Virden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.