Countryside, Illinois.
Typical home $382,208 (+8.9% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,055 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $31,286 +9%
- $350,922$382,208 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $88,179 +30%
- $294,029$382,208 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.
- Countryside$2,006
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Countryside, IL rose 8.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Countryside, Cook County, Illinois
Countryside is a city of 6,420 people in Cook County. Half its households earn more than $80,968 a year and half less, against $83,498 across Cook County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Countryside is a small city in Cook County, close to Chicago, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, and summers turn hot in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and banks, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces in Countryside are Voyant Beauty, which makes creams, lotions and oils, Jewel Food Stores, a supermarket, and Gourmet Culinary, which makes frozen waffles. Many people commute a fairly typical distance to work, and a notable number work from home.
Things to do. SeatGeek Stadium is a short drive away, and so is Brookfield Zoo, a good outing for visiting grandchildren. A longer drive into Chicago brings the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the best known museums in the country, and Millennium Park, a garden in the middle of the city.
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- 2,829households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 19%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 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 64°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Little Red School Hse weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Countryside
- Voyant BeautyCosmetic creams, lotions, and oils manufacturing352
- Jewel Food StoresSupermarkets and other grocery stores174
- Gourmet CulinaryWaffles, frozen, manufacturing150
- Helping Hand - CountrysideActivity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities123
- Heritage Grocers GroupSupermarkets and other grocery retailers99
- Nyco ProductsWaterless hand soaps manufacturing69
- Terry Plumbing A Matrix Holdings LLC CompanyPlumbing contractors58
- TH LemontManufacturer of tube and pipe mills50
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,263 people in all. 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Countryside’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.
Countryside home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Countryside$382,208
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Countryside15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Countryside8
Zip codes with a Countryside address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Countryside — 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.