Illinois · Off-grid & homestead potential
Macoupin County is a solid bolthole (58/100). Its strengths are almost no federal land or extraction and decent rainfall (40.4″/yr). The trade-offs: elevated natural-hazard exposure.
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Macoupin County is a solid bolthole (58/100). Its strengths: almost no federal land or extraction and decent rainfall (40.4″/yr). Watch-outs: elevated natural-hazard exposure.
Land in Macoupin County runs about $8,862 per acre, based on the latest county data.
Macoupin County gets about 40.4" of rain a year, with severe drought in roughly 1.5% of years.
The nearest major metro is about 38 miles away, and population density is 51 people per square mile.