Braceville, Illinois.
Typical home $224,955 (+3.8% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$650 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,285 +4%
- $216,670$224,955 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,804 +35%
- $167,151$224,955 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.
- Braceville$1,181
- 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 Braceville, IL rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Braceville, Grundy County, Illinois
Braceville is a village of 724 people in Grundy County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Grundy County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Braceville is a small village in Grundy County, home to very few people, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Typical home values are modest, and a share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and the town sees a fair amount of snow each year. Summers are warm, and rain and melted snow arrive steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in retail shops, manufacturing, the building trades, and schools, hospitals and social care. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a long one, with very few people working from home. Across Grundy County, the largest workplaces include Morris Hospital, the Minooka school district and Constellation, which runs nuclear power generation.
Things to do. The Mazonia/Braidwood State Fish and Wildlife Area is a protected area in or beside town, and Mazon Creek, another protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Kankakee River State Park, a protected area along the Kankakee River, and to Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, a large protected area of restored prairie.
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- 286households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grundy County had 22,954 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 23 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dwight weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grundy County
- Morris HospitalGeneral hospital1,182FTE
- Minooka CCSD 201School district706FTE
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear690
- Costco WholesaleGeneral warehousing & storage685
- Costco WholesaleMeat processed from carcasses681
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear657
- W.W. GraingerIndustrial supplies merchant wholesalers623
- D ConstructionRoad construction508
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 62 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,965 people in all across the county; Braceville has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Braceville’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 Grundy County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Braceville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Braceville$224,955
- 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.
Zip codes with a Braceville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Braceville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.