Huntley, Illinois.
Typical home $427,652 (+3.1% in a year), asking rent $2,550 . Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,200 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,852 +3%
- $414,800$427,652 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $99,011 +30%
- $328,640$427,652 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.
- Huntley$2,245
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Huntley, IL rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Huntley, McHenry County, Illinois
Huntley is a village of 27,740 people in McHenry County. Half its households earn more than $88,536 a year and half less, against $104,802 across McHenry County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Huntley was 4.8% in August 2026, and McHenry County had 1.2% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Huntley is a village in McHenry County, with a population older than in many American towns. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and rentals are uncommon. Household incomes run below the county's, while a good share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, or in professional and business services. Weber Stephen Products, Walmart and Alden Network are among the largest workplaces in Huntley itself. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a noticeable share of people work from home.
Things to do. Hampshire Forest Preserve, a protected area, and the Illinois Railway Museum are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Geneva Lake is a longer drive away, as is Woodstock Opera House, a theatre. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
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- 12,213households
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McHenry County had 98,058 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 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 35 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Crystal Lake 4NW weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Huntley
- Weber Stephen ProductsBraziers, barbecue, manufacturing540
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters369
- Alden NetworkSkilled nursing facilities242
- Jewel Food StoresSupermarkets and other grocery stores174
- Huntley Park DistrictFish and game agencies150
- HiwinIndustrial machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers115
- LionHeart Critical Power SpecialistsElectrical generating and transmission equipment repair and maintenance services112
- Huntley Fire Protection DistrictAmbulance and fire service combined108
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,617 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of HuntleyRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Huntley’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 McHenry County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Huntley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Huntley$427,652
- 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 Huntley listings, and the typical home goes pending in 14 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.
- Huntley30.75%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Huntley14
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Huntley126
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Huntley56
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Huntley$385,344
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Huntley100.06%
Zip codes with a Huntley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Huntley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.