Buckingham, Illinois.
Typical home $269,465 (+13.7% in a year). Kankakee, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$577 (+69%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $32,502 +14%
- $236,962$269,465 since Sep 2025
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.
- Buckingham$1,414
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Buckingham, IL rose 13.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buckingham, Kankakee County, Illinois
Buckingham is a village of 244 people in Kankakee County. Half its households earn more than $85,938 a year and half less, against $71,281 across Kankakee County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Kankakee County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kankakee County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buckingham is a very small village in Kankakee County, home to only a modest number of people. Nearly everyone owns their home, and incomes run above the county's, with very few households living in poverty. The population skews a little older, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Kankakee County, the largest workplaces include Riverside Medical Center, CSL Behring and Kankakee Schools. Commutes are of middling length, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor places are a longer drive away. The Kankakee River is the best known, and Kankakee River State Park, a protected area along its banks, is also a longer drive. Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, another protected area, is a further trip for those who like open country.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Kankakee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kankakee County had 41,919 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer 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, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kankakee County
- Riverside Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,013FTE
- CSL BehringPlasmas manufacturing1,623
- Kankakee SD 111School district839FTE
- Olivet Nazarene UniversityUniversity or college751
- County of KankakeeCity or county courts436
- Bourbonnais SD 53School district435FTE
- Presence St. Marys HospitalGeneral hospital413FTE
- Nucor Steel KankakeeRounds, tube, steel, made in iron and steel mills405
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 114 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,261 people in all across the county; Buckingham has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Buckingham’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 Kankakee County and the Kankakee, IL metro.
Buckingham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buckingham$269,465
- 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 Buckingham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buckingham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.