White Hall, Illinois.
Typical home $84,916 (+5.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$128 (+40%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,053 +5%
- $80,863$84,916 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $333 +0%
- $84,583$84,916 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.
- White Hall$446
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in White Hall, IL rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in White Hall, Greene County, Illinois
White Hall is a city of 2,295 people in Greene County. Half its households earn more than $55,054 a year and half less, against $62,192 across Greene County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Greene County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. White Hall is a small city in Greene County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values are low. Household incomes run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and some snow each year, while summers are warm, with July the warmest, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and wholesale also employing many people. Among the largest workplaces in White Hall are North Greene CUSD 3, Evercares and Zoetis - White Hall. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. The best-known places nearby are Big Sandy Creek, a river, and Goldenrod, a theatre, both a longer drive away. Clarence Cannon National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is also a longer drive away and suits anyone who likes time outdoors.
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- 807households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greene County had 2,255 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 18 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the White Hall East weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in White Hall
- North Greene CUSD 3School district155FTE
- EvercaresSkilled nursing facilities125
- Zoetis - White HallVaccines manufacturing39
- Sloan Implement CompanyPower equipment stores, outdoor21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 185 people in all. School districts come 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in White Hall’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Greene County.
White Hall home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- White Hall$84,916
- 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.
- White Hall8
Zip codes with a White Hall address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls White Hall — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.