Bartlett, Illinois.
Typical home $439,413 (+4.3% in a year), asking rent $2,365 . Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,224 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,986 +4%
- $421,427$439,413 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $98,871 +29%
- $340,542$439,413 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.
- Bartlett$2,306
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Bartlett, IL rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bartlett, DuPage County, Illinois
Bartlett is a village of 41,105 people in DuPage County. Half its households earn more than $133,240 a year and half less, against $112,096 across DuPage County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Bartlett was 4.6% in August 2026, and DuPage County had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bartlett is a village in DuPage County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run above the county's. Fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect, and a four-year degree is common among adults. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and the village sees a fair amount of snow each year. Summers are warm, with July the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing and in shops. The largest workplaces in Bartlett include Rana Meal Solutions, a maker of fresh pastas and sauces, Cheese Merchants of America, a cheese manufacturer, and the Bartlett Park District. A typical commute is a long one, and a good number of people work from home. Unemployment has risen a little over the past year.
Things to do. For a day out, the nearest well-known places are in Chicago, a longer drive away. The Art Institute of Chicago is a museum, and the Field Museum of Natural History is another. Millennium Park is a garden in the city, and Wrigley Field is a stadium for baseball.
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- 14,140households
- 50%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. DuPage County had 629,392 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 61°. About 34 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Streamwood weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bartlett
- Rana Meal SolutionsManufacturer of fresh pastas and sauces1,353
- Creative WerksApparel folding and packaging services700
- Cheese Merchants of AmericaCheese manufacturing496
- Colony Display BartlettDisplay cases and fixtures manufacturing424
- Bartlett Park DistrictRecreational programs administration, government375
- Axium Packaging : BartlettPlastic bottle manufacturing305
- Senior FlexonicsTubing, flexible metal, manufacturing242
- Holman Upfitting - BartlettTruck bodies assembling on purchased chassis238
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,172 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bartlett’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 DuPage County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Bartlett home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bartlett$439,413
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bartlett listings, and the typical home goes pending in 10 days — 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.
- Bartlett24.00%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Bartlett10
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bartlett89
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bartlett43
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Bartlett$434,885
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Bartlett101.08%
Zip codes with a Bartlett address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bartlett — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.