Maple Park, Illinois.
Typical home $412,622 (+4.5% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,161 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,639 +4%
- $394,983$412,622 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $95,236 +30%
- $317,386$412,622 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.
- Maple Park$2,166
- 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 Maple Park, IL rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Maple Park, Kane County, Illinois
Maple Park is a village of 1,433 people in Kane County. Half its households earn more than $107,045 a year and half less, against $103,163 across Kane County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Kane County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Maple Park is a small village in Kane County where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a place this size. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops and manufacturing. Across Kane County, some of the largest workplaces are school districts, the meal-kit company HelloFresh, and Copley Memorial Hospital. Commutes tend to be long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb is a historic theatre, and Ellwood House is a museum. The East Branch South Branch Kishwaukee River is also close by for time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to the Morton Arboretum, a botanical garden.
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- 576households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kane County had 213,552 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer 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, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kane County
- SD U-46School district4,355FTE
- HelloFreshFood, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale1,574
- Copley Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,560FTE
- Aurora East USD 131School district1,555FTE
- Aurora West USD 129School district1,543FTE
- St Charles CUSD 303School district1,324FTE
- City of ElginCity and town managers' offices1,125
- Delnor-community HospitalGeneral hospital1,124FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 587 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 73,819 people in all across the county; Maple Park has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Maple Park’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 Kane County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Maple Park home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Maple Park$412,622
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
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.
- Maple Park8
Zip codes with a Maple Park address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Maple Park — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.