Glencoe, Illinois.
Typical home $1,681,848 (+15.5% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$5,519 (+167%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $225,467 +15%
- $1,456,381$1,681,848 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $626,735 +59%
- $1,055,113$1,681,848 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.
- Glencoe$8,828
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 7 years.
Typical home values in Glencoe, IL rose 15.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glencoe, Cook County, Illinois
Glencoe is a village of 8,849 people in Cook County. Half its households earn more than $248,933 a year and half less, against $83,498 across Cook County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glencoe is a village on the North Shore, home to a small population whose residents are older than in much of the country. Nearly everyone has a four-year degree, incomes sit far above the county's, and very few households live below the poverty line. Almost all homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are well above what most of the country sees.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and shops. Within the village, the largest workplaces are Glencoe SD 35, the Glencoe Park District and the Village of Glencoe Public Works Department. Commutes are long, and a good share of residents work from home. Across Cook County, unemployment is higher than a year ago, while the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. The Chicago Botanic Garden is in or beside town, and the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is a short drive away. In the city, a longer drive away, the Art Institute of Chicago is a museum well worth the trip. Winters are cold and snowy, with a lot of snow over the season, and summers are warm.
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- 2,977households
- 88%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 34%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 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 34 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chicago Botanic Garden weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Glencoe
- Glencoe SD 35School district221FTE
- Glencoe Park DistrictParks and recreation commission, government186
- Village of Glencoe Public Works DepartmentWater treatment and distribution47
- Village of Glencoe Public SafetyPolice and fire departments, combined43
- Glencoe Golf ClubGolf courses27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 303 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Glencoe’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.
Glencoe home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glencoe$1,681,848
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Glencoe listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Glencoe24.23%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Glencoe34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Glencoe12
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Glencoe address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glencoe — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.