Berkeley, Illinois.
Typical home $305,108 (+5.5% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$889 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,005 +6%
- $289,104$305,108 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,620 +32%
- $230,488$305,108 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.
- Berkeley$1,601
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Berkeley, IL rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Berkeley, Cook County, Illinois
Berkeley is a village of 5,338 people in Cook County. Half its households earn more than $85,823 a year and half less, against $83,498 across Cook County. 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 transport and warehouses, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Berkeley is a village in Cook County, west of Chicago, with a younger population than many suburbs. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and most adults do not hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with heavy snow, and summers turn warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in transport, warehouses and utilities, in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing. Within the village, the largest workplaces include Berkeley SD 87, Berry Electric Contracting Co and L. Neill Cartage Co. Commutes are of middling length, and a share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Brookfield Zoo is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Art Institute of Chicago, a museum, and Millennium Park, a garden. Wrigley Field, a stadium, is also a longer drive.
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- 1,789households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
- 14%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 32° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 66°. About 38 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chicago Ohare International Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Berkeley
- Berkeley SD 87School district349FTE
- Berry Electric Contracting CoLow voltage electrical work36
- L. Neill Cartage CoGeneral warehousing and storage29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 541 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 wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Berkeley’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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.
Berkeley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Berkeley$305,108
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Berkeley11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Berkeley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Berkeley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.