Worden, Illinois.
Typical home $306,197 (+5.8% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$935 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,724 +6%
- $289,474$306,197 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,523 +35%
- $226,675$306,197 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.
- Worden$1,607
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Worden, IL rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Worden, Madison County, Illinois
Worden is a village of 1,096 people in Madison County. Half its households earn more than $89,000 a year and half less, against $75,793 across Madison County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Madison County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Worden is a small village in Madison County, Illinois, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and fewer people live in poverty than you might expect in a place this size. Winters are cold and summers warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Across Madison County, some of the largest workplaces are Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, World Wide Technology and Edwardsville CUSD 7. The usual trip to work is a fairly long one, and only a few people work from home.
Things to do. The Gateway Arch National Park is a national park a longer drive away, set on the riverfront across from the St. Louis skyline. Cahokia, an archaeological site and one of the best known in the region, is also a longer drive away. For a ball game, Busch Stadium is a stadium a longer drive away.
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- 436households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 107,517 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alton - Melvin Price L&d weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison County
- Southern Illinois University-EdwardsvilleUniversity or college2,233
- World Wide TechnologySoftware, computer, packaged, merchant wholesalers1,373
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical1,275
- J.F. ElectricElectrical contractors1,200
- Edwardsville CUSD 7School district1,030FTE
- Anderson HospitalGeneral hospital854FTE
- Collinsville CUSD 10School district844FTE
- Phillips 66 - Wood River RefineryCrude oil refining834
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 277 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 39,988 people in all across the county; Worden has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Worden’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 Madison County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Worden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Worden$306,197
- 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.
Zip codes with a Worden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Worden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.