Harvey, Illinois.
Typical home $107,308 (+3.0% in a year), asking rent $1,696 . Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$350 (+164%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,121 +3%
- $104,187$107,308 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,356 +18%
- $90,952$107,308 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.
- Harvey$563
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Harvey, IL rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Harvey, Cook County, Illinois
Harvey is a city of 20,324 people in Cook County. Half its households earn more than $42,429 a year and half less, against $83,498 across Cook County; 23% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Harvey was 8.4% in August 2026, and Cook County had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Harvey is a city in Cook County, south of Chicago. Incomes here run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical for the county. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and rents are modest. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers turn warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by transport, warehouses and utilities, shops and manufacturing. Ingalls Memorial Hospital is the largest workplace in the city, and Allied Tube & Conduit, which makes pipe from steel, and Fuchs Lubricants Company are among the other big employers. Unemployment has risen over the past year, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than in the county as a whole.
Things to do. Chicago's best-known sights are a longer drive away. The Art Institute of Chicago is a museum, and Millennium Park is a garden in the heart of the city. For ball games, Soldier Field and Wrigley Field are stadiums, also a longer drive from town.
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- 7,512households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 6%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 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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Harvey
- Ingalls Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,360FTE
- Allied Tube & ConduitPipe made from purchased iron or steel800
- Fuchs Lubricants CompanyBrake fluids, petroleum, made from refined petroleum433
- IL - Harvey - 1230 W. 171st St - The American Bottling CompanyOther grocery and related products merchant whsl180
- LB MetalsFabricated structural metal manufacturing174
- Parsec - HarveySwitching services, railroad167
- Harvey SD 152School district145FTE
- Alden NetworkSkilled nursing facilities137
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,580 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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 wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Harvey’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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.
Harvey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Harvey$107,308
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Harvey listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Harvey27.06%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Harvey80
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Harvey18
Zip codes with a Harvey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Harvey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.