Itasca, Illinois.
Typical home $447,640 (+4.6% in a year), asking rent $2,166 (+2.3%). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,168 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,483 +5%
- $428,157$447,640 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $90,792 +25%
- $356,848$447,640 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.
- Itasca$2,350
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Itasca, IL rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Itasca, IL rose 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Itasca runs $1,426/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $3,592 a month against $2,166 rent: a $2,350 mortgage payment, plus $763 property tax and $479 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Itasca
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,592
- Renting$2,166
- Mortgage only$2,350
Property tax · $763/mo 2.05% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for DuPage County, IL
Insurance & upkeep · $479/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Itasca, DuPage County, Illinois
Itasca is a village of 9,543 people in DuPage County. Half its households earn more than $114,294 a year and half less, against $112,096 across DuPage County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in DuPage County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% 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. Itasca is a village in DuPage County, with a population a bit under that of many county towns and residents who are somewhat older than is typical. Household incomes run a little above the county's, very few people live below the poverty line, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days and rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing and in shops. Among the biggest workplaces in Itasca are Option Care Enterprises, a home health agency, Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network, and Hearthside Food Solutions Itasca, which packages prepared meals. Many adults hold a four-year degree, a good number work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. The best-known places nearby are in Chicago, a longer drive away. Wrigley Field is a stadium for baseball, the Art Institute of Chicago is a museum, and Millennium Park is a garden in the middle of the city. Each is a longer drive away, so a visit makes more of a day out than a quick errand.
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- 3,754households
- 53%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 23%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. DuPage County had 629,392 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 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 66°. About 38 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chicago Ohare International Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Itasca
- Option Care EnterprisesHome health agencies504
- Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor NetworkOrgan donor centers, body443
- Fellowes ItascaCorrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard422
- Hearthside Food Solutions ItascaPrepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale375
- Henricksen and CompanyOffice furniture merchant wholesalers350
- Christ Panos FoodsGeneral-line groceries merchant wholesalers300
- Titan ElectricFire alarm system, electric, installation only293
- Equipment Depot of Illinois, Inc. - ItascaForklifts manufacturing259
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 62 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,830 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Itasca’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 DuPage County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Itasca home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Itasca$447,640
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Itasca 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.
- Itasca28.42%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Itasca20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Itasca7
Zip codes with a Itasca address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Itasca — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.