Markham, Illinois.
Typical home $155,675 (+1.8% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$494 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,790 +2%
- $152,885$155,675 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,533 +23%
- $126,142$155,675 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.
- Markham$817
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Markham, IL rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Markham, Cook County, Illinois
Markham is a city of 11,661 people in Cook County. Half its households earn more than $57,302 a year and half less, against $83,498 across Cook County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% 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 transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Markham is a city in Cook County, south of Chicago, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run well below the county's, and the people here are younger than in many towns. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing in January, and summers are warm; the town sees a fair amount of snow and a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in banks, insurance and property, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Markham are Amazon, Prairie-Hills ESD Schools and Student Transportation of America. Commutes are on the long side, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Markham is a longer drive from Chicago's well-known places. The Art Institute of Chicago is a museum, Millennium Park is a garden, and Soldier Field is a stadium. The Field Museum of Natural History is another museum within the same longer drive.
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- 3,655households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 13%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 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 28 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Park Forest weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Markham
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage4,123
- Prairie-Hills ESD 144School district289FTE
- URT E&R TowingWrecker services, motor vehicle140
- Student Transportation of America485410120
- CBREActivities related to real estate/facilities support services99
- BrackenboxRecyclable material collection services88
- Reyes GroupHighway construction80
- Cook County Sheriff's DepartmentSheriffs' offices, court functions only57
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,770 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 wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Markham’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.
Markham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Markham$155,675
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Markham listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Markham27.58%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Markham64
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Markham18
Zip codes with a Markham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Markham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.