Chicago Ridge, Illinois.
Typical home $249,629 (+3.9% in a year), asking rent $1,544 . Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$695 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,444 +4%
- $240,185$249,629 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,017 +23%
- $202,612$249,629 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.
- Chicago Ridge$1,310
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Chicago Ridge, IL rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chicago Ridge, Cook County, Illinois
Chicago Ridge is a village of 14,433 people in Cook County. Half its households earn more than $68,964 a year and half less, against $83,498 across Cook County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% 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 transport and warehouses, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chicago Ridge is a village in Cook County, in the Chicago area. It is a younger place than many, with residents who are younger than in much of the country, and most homes are split fairly evenly between owners and renters. Incomes run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount through the year.
Work. Many residents work in transport, warehouses and utilities, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in banks, insurance and property. Among the larger workplaces in Chicago Ridge are Chicago Ridge Schools, Avantara Chicago Ridge, and HMD Trucking. Commutes are fairly long, and relatively few people work from home. Unemployment across Cook County is higher than a year earlier, though the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. SeatGeek Stadium, a stadium used for sports and events, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive takes you into the city, where the Art Institute of Chicago and the Field Museum of Natural History are among the best known museums. Millennium Park, a downtown garden and public space, is also a longer drive away.
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- 5,234households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 11%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, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chicago Ridge
- Chicago Ridge SD 127-5School district204FTE
- Avantara Chicago RidgeNursing homes173
- HMD Trucking,IncGeneral freight trucking, local150
- Saba HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities137
- Kohl's97
- Central TransportGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, less than truckload70
- Ward Trucking LLC-ChicagoGeneral freight trucking, local68
- City LightsElectrical contractors66
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 895 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Chicago Ridge’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.
Chicago Ridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chicago Ridge$249,629
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Chicago Ridge listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Chicago Ridge32.50%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Chicago Ridge39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Chicago Ridge13
Zip codes with a Chicago Ridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chicago Ridge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.