Hampshire, Illinois.
Typical home $415,413 (+4.3% in a year), asking rent $2,395 . Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,218 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,117 +4%
- $398,296$415,413 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $106,244 +34%
- $309,169$415,413 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.
- Hampshire$2,180
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Hampshire, IL rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hampshire, Kane County, Illinois
Hampshire is a village of 7,667 people in Kane County. Half its households earn more than $94,773 a year and half less, against $103,163 across Kane County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Kane County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hampshire is a village in Kane County, Illinois, with a population a little under what many people picture when they hear the word town. Residents are somewhat younger than the typical American, and household incomes run below the county's, though fewer households fall under the poverty line than in many places. Homes here are valued well above what is common nationally, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, snow most winters, and summers that turn warm by July.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Within the village itself, the largest workplaces include W.R. Meadows Hampshire, which makes architectural coatings, Hampshire Middle School, and Combined Metals Company, which rolls steel shapes. The commute is fairly long for many people, and a good share of residents work from home. Joblessness across Kane County is lower than a year earlier, even as the number of jobs there has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Hampshire Forest Preserve is a protected natural area in or beside town, handy for a walk outdoors. A short drive away is the Illinois Railway Museum, a museum devoted to railroading. Farther afield, Santa's Village Amusement & Water Park is an amusement park a longer drive off, and the Woodstock Opera House is a theatre that is likewise a longer drive away.
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- 2,604households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 24%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kane County had 213,552 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 31 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marengo weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hampshire
- W.R. Meadows HampshireArchitectural coatings manufacturing129
- Hampshire Middle SchoolMiddle school106
- Combined Metals Company LLC - HampshireCold rolling steel shapes made from purchased steel105
- Polifilm AmericaPolypropylene film and unlaminated sheet manufacturing80
- American Precision AssemblersElectric motors, wiring supplies, and lighting fixtures merchant wholesalers75
- BestlerPlumbing contractors60
- Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Best Air (Keyes Ave.)Furnace filters manufacturing56
- Hampshire Elementary SchoolElementary school51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 816 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Hampshire’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 Kane County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Hampshire home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hampshire$415,413
- 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 3 Hampshire 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.
- Hampshire34.27%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hampshire28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hampshire9
Zip codes with a Hampshire address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hampshire — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.