Kildeer, Illinois.
Typical home $870,048 (+3.8% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,399 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $32,000 +4%
- $838,048$870,048 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $195,006 +29%
- $675,043$870,048 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.
- Kildeer$4,567
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Kildeer, IL rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kildeer, Lake County, Illinois
Kildeer is a village of 4,091 people in Lake County. 99% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 1% are rented. Unemployment in Lake County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kildeer is a small village where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and the typical home is worth far more than in most of the country. Residents are older than in many towns, and incomes sit well above the county's, with very few people living below the poverty line. Nearly all adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, manufacturing, banks, insurance and property, and schools, hospitals and social care. Across Lake County, the largest workplaces include AbbVie, Abbott and Discover Financial Services. A good many people work from home, and those who commute face a fairly long trip.
Things to do. The Chicago Botanic Garden is the closest-sounding option for a quiet outing, though like the rest of the list it is a longer drive away. Six Flags Great America is an amusement park, also a longer drive away. For a day out in the city, Wrigley Field is one of the best known stadiums in the country, and Brookfield Zoo offers a family outing, each a longer drive away.
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- 1,499households
- 81%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 40%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lake County had 325,826 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 43 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mundelein Wsw weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lake County
- AbbVie (Abbott Park )Pharmaceutical preparations manufacturing8,297
- AbbVie - US FieldOffice administration services6,857
- AbbottSurgical and medical instrument manufacturing4,909
- Discover Financial ServicesOffice administration services4,822
- AbbVie (Mettawa)Office administration services3,503
- CDWComputer peripheral equipment merchant wholesalers3,224
- AbbVie (North Chicago)Pharmaceutical preparations manufacturing3,218
- Zebra Technologies Corporation (IL151)Computer terminals manufacturing2,548
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 579 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 117,782 people in all across the county; Kildeer has none of its own. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kildeer’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 Lake County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Kildeer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kildeer$870,048
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Kildeer 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.
- Kildeer29.32%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kildeer21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kildeer6
Zip codes with a Kildeer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kildeer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.