Channahon, Illinois.
Typical home $387,034 (+4.0% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,072 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,997 +4%
- $372,037$387,034 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,181 +28%
- $301,852$387,034 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.
- Channahon$2,031
- 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 Channahon, IL rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Channahon, Will County, Illinois
Channahon is a village of 13,383 people in Will County. Half its households earn more than $119,494 a year and half less, against $109,984 across Will County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Will County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Channahon is a village in Will County where rivers meet: the Des Plaines, the DuPage and the Kankakee all run in or beside town. It is a place of homeowners, with far more homes lived in by their owners than is typical, and household incomes that sit above the county's. Residents are a little younger than the national middle, winters run cold and snowy, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services close behind. Among the biggest workplaces in Channahon are Amazon, with its warehousing and delivery operations, Bunge Loaders Croklaan, which refines and blends fats and oils, and the Channahon school district. The typical commute is a long one, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. The river is the natural draw: Channahon State Park is in or beside town, and Briscoe Mounds, an archaeological site, is nearby as well. A short drive away, Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie offers open protected land to walk, and Heidecke Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area is another protected area close by. Those who like motorsports can find Autobahn Country Club a short drive off.
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- 4,547households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Will County had 267,868 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 18 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Channahon Dresden Isl Dam weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Channahon
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services1,390
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage965
- Bunge Loaders CroklaanFats and oils refining and blending288
- Brieser Construction CoChimney, concrete, construction250
- Channahon SD 17School district234FTE
- FerrellgasPropane distribution227
- Channahon Park DistrictCommunity recreation programs, government171
- Hoffman Transportation ChannahonDry bulk carrier, truck, long-distance160
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,833 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 wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of ChannahonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Channahon’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Will County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Channahon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Channahon$387,034
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Channahon listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Channahon32.72%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Channahon48
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Channahon17
Zip codes with a Channahon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Channahon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.