Kirkland, Illinois.
Typical home $277,627 (+6.7% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$837 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,332 +7%
- $260,294$277,627 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,470 +37%
- $202,157$277,627 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.
- Kirkland$1,457
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Kirkland, IL rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kirkland, DeKalb County, Illinois
Kirkland is a village of 1,650 people in DeKalb County. Half its households earn more than $94,338 a year and half less, against $70,724 across DeKalb County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in DeKalb County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kirkland is a small village in DeKalb County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the share of renters is low. Households tend to be younger than in many towns, and incomes run well above the county's, with fewer residents living below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm and July is the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Within Kirkland itself, the largest workplaces include US LBM Holdings, which makes wood windows, doors and engineered wood members, and the Hiawatha school district. Commutes are on the long side, and few people work from home, so many residents travel some distance for their jobs.
Things to do. Close to home, Owens Creek runs in or beside town, and the Kishwaukee River State Fish and Wildlife Area, a protected area, sits right beside it. A short drive away is the East Branch of the South Branch Kishwaukee River, a quiet stretch of river for a walk along the water. For a longer outing, Anderson Japanese Gardens is a botanical garden a longer drive away, and the Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb is a historic theatre also a longer drive off.
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- 615households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. DeKalb County had 36,506 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 33 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the De Kalb weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kirkland
- US LBM HoldingsWood window and door manufacturing92
- US LBM HoldingsEngineered wood member manufacturing88
- Hiawatha CUSD 426School district67FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 180 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 wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kirkland’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 DeKalb County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Kirkland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kirkland$277,627
- 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.
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kirkland8
Zip codes with a Kirkland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kirkland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.