Crete, Illinois.
Typical home $303,300 (+4.3% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$872 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,513 +4%
- $290,788$303,300 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,876 +28%
- $236,424$303,300 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.
- Crete$1,592
- 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 Crete, IL rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Crete, Will County, Illinois
Crete is a village of 8,465 people in Will County. Half its households earn more than $97,147 a year and half less, against $109,984 across Will County; 4% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Crete is a village in Will County where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a higher share than is typical across the country. Residents are older than in most American towns, and household incomes sit below the county's, though few people live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, manufacturing and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Crete are the Crete Monee school district, Dutch American Foods, which makes baking products, and the Village of Crete, which runs the combined ambulance and fire service. The commute is a long one, and fewer people work from home than go out to a job.
Things to do. Most of what draws visitors lies a longer drive away, in and around Chicago. The Field Museum of Natural History and the Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry are museums among the best known there, and Soldier Field is the stadium where the city's football team plays. All of these are a longer drive away.
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- 3,323households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 11%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 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, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crete
- Crete Monee CUSD 201USchool district753FTE
- Dutch American Foods, Inc. CretePowders, baking, manufacturing115
- M&M Home Remodeling ServicesHome improvement82
- Village of CreteAmbulance and fire service combined57
- Witech CompanyExcavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors53
- CreteMail and parcel delivery24
- Integrated Demolition ServiceDemolition contractor22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 353 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 moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Crete’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 Will County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Crete home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Crete$303,300
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Crete 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.
- Crete31.32%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Crete72
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Crete20
Zip codes with a Crete address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Crete — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.