Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
Typical home $572,252 (+6.3% in a year), asking rent $2,195 . Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,625 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $33,869 +6%
- $538,383$572,252 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $156,722 +38%
- $415,530$572,252 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.
- Glen Ellyn$3,004
- 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 Glen Ellyn, IL rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glen Ellyn, DuPage County, Illinois
Glen Ellyn is a village of 28,846 people in DuPage County. Half its households earn more than $140,938 a year and half less, against $112,096 across DuPage County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Glen Ellyn was 4.7% in August 2026, and DuPage County had 1.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glen Ellyn is a village in DuPage County where most homes are lived in by their owners and incomes run well above the county's. Adults here are more likely than not to hold a four-year degree, and the population is of middle age overall. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the hottest; rain and melted snow are spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. Some of the biggest workplaces are close to home, among them College of DuPage, a two-year college, and the Glen Ellyn school district. A good share of residents work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one for those who travel to a job.
Things to do. The Morton Arboretum, a botanical garden, is a short drive away and is the nearest of the well-known places on the list. The Art Institute of Chicago and the Field Museum of Natural History, both museums, are a longer drive away, as is Millennium Park, a garden.
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- 10,698households
- 68%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 33%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. DuPage County had 629,392 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lisle-morton Arboretum weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Glen Ellyn
- College of DuPageTwo-year college2,166
- Glenbard Twp HSD 87School district948FTE
- Glen Ellyn SD 41School district562FTE
- Glen Ellyn Park DistrictGeneral services departments, government254
- Village of Glen EllynRestaurants, full service134
- Jewel Food StoresSupermarkets and other grocery stores125
- Trader Joe's 0680 Glen EllynGrocery store93
- Park of Glen EllynSenior living84
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,891 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of Glen EllynRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Glen Ellyn’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 DuPage County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Glen Ellyn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glen Ellyn$572,252
- 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 4 Glen Ellyn listings, and the typical home goes pending in 16 days — 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.
- Glen Ellyn28.04%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Glen Ellyn16
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Glen Ellyn101
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Glen Ellyn44
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Glen Ellyn$554,383
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Glen Ellyn102.60%
Zip codes with a Glen Ellyn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glen Ellyn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.