Burnham, Illinois.
Typical home $150,949 (+0.2% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$515 (+186%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $311 +0%
- $150,638$150,949 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,091 +37%
- $109,859$150,949 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.
- Burnham$792
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Burnham, IL rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Burnham, Cook County, Illinois
Burnham is a village of 4,046 people in Cook County. Half its households earn more than $57,790 a year and half less, against $83,498 across Cook County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 people in Cook County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Burnham is a small village in Cook County, and the Calumet River runs in or beside town. Residents are somewhat younger than in many older communities, and household incomes here are well below the county's. A four-year degree is less common among adults than it is in much of the country, and homes cost a good deal less than in many parts of the Chicago area.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, manufacturing and shops. Some people work from home. Across Cook County, large employers include Chicago Public Schools, the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. Unemployment across the county has risen over the past year, though the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. The Calumet River, in or beside town, is the nearest place to get out and look at the water. A longer drive brings you to the Art Institute of Chicago, a museum, and the Field Museum of Natural History, another museum. Millennium Park, a garden in the city, is also a longer drive away. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm, so plan trips around the season.
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- 1,449households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 14%work from home
What people in Cook County 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 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 28 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Park Forest weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cook County
- Chicago Public Schools Dist 299School district37,732FTE
- University of Illinois ChicagoUniversity or college14,460
- University of ChicagoUniversity or college13,622
- Northwestern UniversityUniversity or college11,742
- University of Chicago HospitalsGeneral hospital9,616FTE
- Northwestern Medical GroupMds' offices9,478
- Rush University Medical CenterGeneral hospital9,416FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services8,403
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3,702 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 793,086 people in all across the county; Burnham has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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 wavesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Burnham’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 Cook County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Burnham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burnham$150,949
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Burnham 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.
- Burnham25.33%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Burnham25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Burnham5
Zip codes with a Burnham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burnham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.