Beach Park, Illinois.
Typical home $307,123 (+5.9% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$931 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,048 +6%
- $290,076$307,123 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,387 +39%
- $221,736$307,123 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.
- Beach Park$1,612
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Beach Park, IL rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Beach Park, Lake County, Illinois
Beach Park is a village of 14,249 people in Lake County. Half its households earn more than $85,664 a year and half less, against $110,416 across Lake County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Lake County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Beach Park is a village in Lake County, Illinois, and most homes there are lived in by their owners, a larger share than in most places. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values sit in the middle of the range for the area. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall at a moderate level through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many communities, and a good number of people work from home. Across Lake County, some of the largest workplaces are AbbVie, Abbott and Discover Financial Services, and commutes take a fair part of the day.
Things to do. Six Flags Great America, an amusement park, is a short drive away, along with the roller coasters inside it such as Raging Bull and Goliath. Adeline Jay Geo-Karis Illinois Beach State Park, a beach on Lake Michigan, is also a short drive away. The Chicago Botanic Garden is a longer drive, and suits a slower day out.
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- 5,143households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lake County had 325,826 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 62°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chicago Waukegan Regional Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lake County
- AbbVie (Abbott Park )Pharmaceutical preparations manufacturing8,297
- AbbVie - US FieldOffice administration services6,857
- AbbottSurgical and medical instrument manufacturing4,909
- Discover Financial ServicesOffice administration services4,822
- AbbVie (Mettawa)Office administration services3,503
- CDWComputer peripheral equipment merchant wholesalers3,224
- AbbVie (North Chicago)Pharmaceutical preparations manufacturing3,218
- Zebra Technologies Corporation (IL151)Computer terminals manufacturing2,548
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 579 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 117,782 people in all across the county; Beach Park has one of its own. 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 high
- LightningRelatively 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 Beach Park’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 Lake County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Beach Park home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Beach Park$307,123
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Beach Park listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Beach Park27.69%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Beach Park37
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Beach Park15
Zip codes with a Beach Park address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Beach Park — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.