Lemont, Illinois.
Typical home $589,005 (+7.3% in a year), asking rent $2,231 . Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,714 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $40,281 +7%
- $548,724$589,005 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $152,384 +35%
- $436,621$589,005 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.
- Lemont$3,092
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Lemont, IL rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lemont, Cook County, Illinois
Lemont is a village of 17,629 people in Cook County. Half its households earn more than $123,370 a year and half less, against $83,498 across Cook County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lemont is a village in Cook County where most homes are lived in by their owners, well above the share across the county. Household incomes run higher than the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line. The population skews older than many places, and a good share of adults have a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs hovering just above freezing, while July brings hot summer days. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops, and banks, insurance and property. Some of the largest workplaces in Lemont itself are the Lemont-Bromberek school district, Franciscan Village, a continuing care retirement community, and the Lemont Township high school district. Commutes are long, and a fair number of people work from home. Unemployment across Cook County is higher than it was a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Most of what draws visitors lies in Chicago, a longer drive away. The Art Institute of Chicago is a museum, Millennium Park is a garden and public space in the city, and Wrigley Field is one of the best known ballparks in the country. Each of these is a longer drive from Lemont.
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- 6,412households
- 47%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 17%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 33° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 64°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Little Red School Hse weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lemont
- Lemont-Bromberek CSD 113ASchool district337FTE
- Franciscan VillageContinuing care retirement communities330
- Lemont Twp HSD 210School district241FTE
- Lemont Park DistrictExecutive offices, federal, state, and local220
- Jewel Food StoresSupermarkets and other grocery stores153
- TargetDiscount department stores146
- Department of EnergyFederal government91
- Market on StateGrocery stores70
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,045 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Lemont’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 Cook County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Lemont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lemont$589,005
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Lemont listings, and the typical home goes pending in 10 days — 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.
- Lemont28.26%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Lemont10
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lemont74
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lemont27
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Lemont$606,027
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Lemont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lemont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.