Hazel Crest, Illinois.
Typical home $183,436 (+4.2% in a year), asking rent $2,725 . Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$544 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,335 +4%
- $176,101$183,436 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,168 +20%
- $152,267$183,436 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.
- Hazel Crest$963
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Hazel Crest, IL rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hazel Crest, Cook County, Illinois
Hazel Crest is a village of 13,382 people in Cook County. Half its households earn more than $68,393 a year and half less, against $83,498 across Cook County. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hazel Crest is a village in Cook County, in the south suburbs of Chicago. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and household incomes sit below the county's. Winters are cold, with plenty of snow, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by transport, warehouses and utilities, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Hazel Crest are Community Care Systems, a non-medical homemaker service for elderly or disabled people, Pine Crest Health Care, a nursing home, and Hazel Crest Schools. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical for the county, and many people work from home.
Things to do. The city's best-known sights are a longer drive away. The Art Institute of Chicago is a museum, Soldier Field is a stadium, and Millennium Park is a garden. Together they make for a full day out in the city.
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- 4,828households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
- 16%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, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hazel Crest
- Community Care SystemsHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical1,021
- Pine Crest Health CareNursing homes110
- Hazel Crest SD 152-5School district90FTE
- Heniff Transportation Systems LLC - Hazel CrestTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload60
- Charter Senior Living of Hazel CrestSenior housing industry58
- CSL BehringBlood and organ banks47
- Total Clean - Hazel CrestArrangement of car pools and vanpools31
- Hazel CrestMail and parcel delivery23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,350 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Hazel Crest’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.
Hazel Crest home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hazel Crest$183,436
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Hazel Crest 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.
- Hazel Crest23.52%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hazel Crest73
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hazel Crest23
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Hazel Crest address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hazel Crest — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.