Bolingbrook, Illinois.
Typical home $369,498 (+3.3% in a year), asking rent $2,742 (+4.8%). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,062 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,720 +3%
- $357,778$369,498 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $86,886 +31%
- $282,612$369,498 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.
- Bolingbrook$1,939
- 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 Bolingbrook, IL rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Bolingbrook, IL rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Bolingbrook runs $284/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $466 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,026 a month against $2,742 rent: a $1,939 mortgage payment, plus $691 property tax and $396 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Bolingbrook
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,026
- Renting$2,742
- Mortgage only$1,939
Property tax · $691/mo 2.24% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Will County, IL
Insurance & upkeep · $396/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Bolingbrook, Will County, Illinois
Bolingbrook is a village of 73,922 people in Will County. Half its households earn more than $108,400 a year and half less, against $109,984 across Will County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Bolingbrook was 5.3% in August 2026, and Will County had 1.6% 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. Bolingbrook is a village in Will County, southwest of Chicago, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Household incomes are close to the county's, and residents tend to be somewhat younger than in many older suburbs. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing, and summers are warm, with July the warmest month. Snow is regular through the colder months, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Bolingbrook are G&W Electric Company, which makes switchgear, West Liberty Foods, a processed meats maker, and UCM Adventhealth Bolingbrook, a general hospital. Commutes are fairly long, and a noticeable group of residents work from home.
Things to do. Chicago's best-known sights are a longer drive away from Bolingbrook. The Art Institute of Chicago is a museum, and Millennium Park is a garden in the city's center. For sports, Soldier Field is a stadium that is also a longer drive away. The Field Museum of Natural History is another museum on the same trip.
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- 23,959households
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Will County had 267,868 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 33 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Romeoville Weather Office weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bolingbrook
- G&W Electric CompanySwitchgear and switchgear accessories manufacturing1,171
- West Liberty FoodsProcessed meats manufacturing1,043
- S&S Activewear - Bolingbrook OfficeSportswear, men's and boys', merchant wholesalers793
- Southern Glazers Wine and SpiritsWine and distilled alcoholic beverage merchant wholesalers.776
- UCM Adventhealth BolingbrookGeneral hospital685FTE
- Real Good Foods - BolingbrookPoultry manufacturing500
- Maker's Pride - BolingbrookPowders, baking, manufacturing472
- Turano Knead DoughRolls and buns made in commercial bakeries442
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 101 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,884 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Bolingbrook’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 Will County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Bolingbrook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bolingbrook$369,498
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bolingbrook listings, and the typical home goes pending in 12 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.
- Bolingbrook28.02%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Bolingbrook12
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bolingbrook157
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bolingbrook73
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Bolingbrook$388,337
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Bolingbrook101.41%
Zip codes with a Bolingbrook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bolingbrook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Bolingbrook
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60440 | Bolingbrook | 51,940 | $2,673 | $331,144 |
| 60490 | Bolingbrook | 22,156 | $3,854 | $496,231 |