Burbank, Illinois.
Typical home $313,489 (+5.9% in a year), asking rent $1,996 . Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$911 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,590 +6%
- $295,899$313,489 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,169 +28%
- $244,320$313,489 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.
- Burbank$1,645
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Burbank, IL rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Burbank, Cook County, Illinois
Burbank is a city of 29,439 people in Cook County. Half its households earn more than $80,116 a year and half less, against $83,498 across Cook County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Burbank was 5.6% in August 2026, and Cook County had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Burbank is a city in Cook County, southwest of Chicago, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners, a larger share than across the county as a whole. Household incomes sit a little below the county's, and a good number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and transport and warehousing close behind. Among the largest workplaces in town are Burbank Schools, Reavis Twp HSD Schools and Jewel Food Stores. Unemployment is higher than it was a year earlier, and the typical commute is fairly long.
Things to do. SeatGeek Stadium is in or beside town, and Rate Field, a stadium, is a short drive away. A short drive also brings you to the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa, a museum. For a longer outing, the Art Institute of Chicago is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 9,539households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 7%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 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 68°. About 39 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chicago Midway Airport 3SW weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burbank
- Burbank SD 111School district370FTE
- A E R O Spec Educ Coop SchoolsSchool district251FTE
- Reavis Twp HSD 220School district231FTE
- Jewel Food StoresSupermarkets and other grocery stores148
- Heritage Grocers GroupSupermarkets and other grocery retailers140
- Aperion Care of BurbankSkilled nursing facilities90
- Burbank Rehabilitation CenterSkilled nursing facilities86
- South Stickney Sanitary DistrictWater pumping or lift station construction23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 507 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 high in parts of BurbankRelatively 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 Burbank’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.
Burbank home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burbank$313,489
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Burbank listings, and the typical home goes pending in 15 days — 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.
- Burbank35.28%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Burbank70
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Burbank25
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Burbank$313,618
- United States$370,717
Zip codes with a Burbank address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burbank — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.