Zip lookup · IL

60045
Lake Forest, Illinois.

Lake Forest, Lake County, IL · Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro · population 21,074

What it costs per month · 60045 $6,462/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,768 (+140%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $122,122 +11%
$1,109,040$1,231,162 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $387,726 +46%
$843,436$1,231,162 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.

$2,000 $4,000 $6,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 60045 $6,462 United States $1,922
$2,000 $4,000 $6,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 60045$6,462
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.

Typical home values in zip 60045 rose 11.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Lake Forest, IL — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $3,952 as of Sep 2026
Typical home value $1,231,162 as of Sep 2026
+11.0%year on year

Asking rent — 60045

Against the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro and the national benchmark.

$2,000 $3,000 $4,000 2026 60045 $3,952 Chicago $2,163 United States $1,932
$2,000 $3,000 $4,000 2026
  • 60045$3,952
  • Chicago$2,163
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 60045

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$250,000 $500,000 $750,000 $1,000,000 $1,250,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 60045 $1,231,162 Chicago $355,650 United States $366,157
$250,000 $500,000 $750,000 $1,000,000 $1,250,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 60045$1,231,162
  • Chicago$355,650
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 76 zips in range — sorting picks from all 76.

10 mi 20 mi 50 mi
Miles Zip City Population Rent Home value
3.2 60044 Lake Bluff 10,312 $2,058 $675,520
3.7 60040 Highwood 5,301 $2,418 $498,349
4.0 60069 Lincolnshire 8,502 $3,419 $700,091
4.5 60015 Deerfield 28,096 $2,812 $730,410
4.6 60061 Vernon Hills 27,974 $2,587 $457,024
4.8 60035 Highland Park 30,398 $3,147 $801,693
5.5 60048 Libertyville 29,124 $2,185 $628,092
5.9 60064 North Chicago 14,884 $1,822 $223,548
6.7 60089 Buffalo Grove 42,872 $2,402 $444,313
7.8 60062 Northbrook 41,406 $2,687 $715,242
7.9 60090 Wheeling 38,298 $2,028 $316,176
8.1 60085 Waukegan 72,341 $1,710 $239,587
8.8 60022 Glencoe 8,352 — $1,662,728
9.0 60060 Mundelein 37,344 $2,358 $391,057
9.3 60047 Lake Zurich 44,240 $3,191 $663,464
9.7 60070 Prospect Heights 15,496 $1,712 $329,888
10.1 60031 Gurnee 37,107 $1,956 $379,375
10.2 60026 Glenview 14,069 $2,597 $816,592
10.3 60004 Arlington Heights 51,835 $2,098 $507,524
10.9 60074 Palatine 36,460 $1,945 $315,140
10.9 60093 Winnetka 19,867 $2,010 $1,592,940
11.2 60030 Grayslake 35,792 $2,299 $358,110
11.5 60087 Waukegan 27,293 $1,592 $269,628
11.7 60025 Glenview 41,689 $2,746 $635,711
12.3 60056 Mount Prospect 55,818 $1,832 $449,936
12.9 60016 Des Plaines 60,898 $2,079 $338,573
13.0 60043 Kenilworth 2,503 — $2,109,560
13.1 60029 Golf 518 — $1,309,332
13.3 60091 Wilmette 27,333 $3,794 $1,007,052
13.4 60005 Arlington Heights 28,843 $1,895 $458,332

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.