Barrington, Illinois.
Typical home $636,701 (+8.6% in a year), asking rent $2,666 . Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,780 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $50,536 +9%
- $586,165$636,701 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $151,242 +31%
- $485,459$636,701 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.
- Barrington$3,342
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Barrington, IL rose 8.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Barrington, Cook County, Illinois
Barrington is a village of 10,722 people in Cook County. Half its households earn more than $147,989 a year and half less, against $83,498 across Cook County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Cook County was 5.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Barrington is a village in Cook County whose residents are older than the typical American and, on the whole, well established. Incomes run well above the county's, relatively few people live below the poverty line, and most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. A large majority of adults hold a four-year degree, and a good share of people work from home. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and July is the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in banks, insurance and property, and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Barrington are Barrington CUSD, the school district, along with Freedom Homecare and Ortho Molecular Products. The typical commute is a fair way, though many people skip it by working from home.
Things to do. The Catlow Theater is in or beside town, making it the easiest outing close to home. A longer drive brings you to the Chicago Botanic Garden, a botanical garden, and Brookfield Zoo, a zoo. Wrigley Field, the well-known stadium in Chicago, is also a longer drive away.
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- 4,297households
- 68%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 34%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cook County had 2,594,810 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 63°. About 38 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Barrington 3SW weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Barrington
- Barrington CUSD 220School district1,148FTE
- Freedom HomecareHome care of elderly, medical456
- Ortho Molecular ProductsCorporate offices206
- Alden NetworkSkilled nursing facilities145
- Barrington Park DistrictParks and recreation commission, government141
- Jewel Food StoresSupermarkets and other grocery stores125
- Heinen'sGrocery stores121
- BarringtonMail and parcel delivery74
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,504 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Barrington’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 Cook County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Barrington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Barrington$636,701
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Barrington listings — the market is heating up.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Barrington28.25%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Barrington52
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Barrington16
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Barrington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Barrington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.