Brookfield, Illinois.
Typical home $359,505 (+8.3% in a year), asking rent $2,086 . Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,016 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,529 +8%
- $331,977$359,505 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $88,332 +33%
- $271,173$359,505 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.
- Brookfield$1,887
- 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 Brookfield, IL rose 8.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brookfield, Cook County, Illinois
Brookfield is a village of 19,476 people in Cook County. Half its households earn more than $110,295 a year and half less, against $83,498 across Cook County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brookfield is a village in Cook County, home to a good many people living close to one another. Incomes run well above the county's, and the share of people living below the poverty line is small. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population skews a bit older than a typical American community. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, manufacturing, and transport and warehousing. Among the largest workplaces in Brookfield are The British Home, a continuing care retirement community, the Brookfield Lagrange Park school district, and Tischler Finer Foods. Plenty of people also commute out of town for work, and a good number work from home.
Things to do. Brookfield Zoo is in or beside the village, which makes it the easiest outing for a free afternoon. A short drive away are the United Center and SeatGeek Stadium, both stadiums for games and concerts. For a longer trip, the Art Institute of Chicago is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 7,683households
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 17%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 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 68°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chicago Midway Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brookfield
- The British HomeContinuing care retirement communities160
- Brookfield Lagrange Park SD 95School district155FTE
- Tischler Finer FoodsFood stores39
- Air Culinaire WorldwideAviation catering support28
- BrookfieldMail and parcel delivery28
- Dayton FoodsAgents and brokers, durable goods, wholesale trade26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 281 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brookfield’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 Cook County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Brookfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brookfield$359,505
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Brookfield 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.
- Brookfield35.34%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brookfield35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brookfield16
Zip codes with a Brookfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brookfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.