Medinah, Illinois.
Typical home $534,849 (+5.6% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,509 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $28,300 +6%
- $506,549$534,849 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $138,368 +35%
- $396,481$534,849 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.
- Medinah$2,807
- 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 Medinah, IL rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Medinah, DuPage County, Illinois
The Census does not count Medinah on its own, so the figures here are DuPage County's. Half the county's households earn more than $112,096 a year and half less; 7% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 73% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in DuPage County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in DuPage County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Medinah is a town in DuPage County, Illinois, and most homes there are lived in by their owners, a higher share than in many places. Across the county, median household income is high and the median age is in the middle years of adulthood, so the town suits households settled into long-term homes. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a wet year.
Work. Unemployment across DuPage County rose over the past year but remains moderate, and the number of jobs grew slightly in the most recent year. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing, and in retail. A majority of adults in the county hold a four-year degree, and a good share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Chicago's museums are a longer drive away, and the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the best known art museums in the country, is among the most visited. The Field Museum of Natural History, also a longer drive away, offers another large museum day. For sports, Wrigley Field is a longer drive away and is one of the city's best known stadiums.
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- 350,758households
- 40.2median age
- 52%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 22%work from home
What people in DuPage County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. DuPage County had 629,392 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 66°. About 38 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chicago Ohare International Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in DuPage County
- Medix Staffing SolutionsTemporary staffing services4,319
- Indian Prairie CUSD 204School district3,938FTE
- Central Dupage HospitalGeneral hospital3,308FTE
- NM Regional Medical GroupMds' offices3,167
- Edward HospitalGeneral hospital2,491FTE
- College of DuPageTwo-year college2,166
- Cusd 200School district2,046FTE
- Elmhurst Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital2,000FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,275 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 192,956 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across DuPage County, 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 DuPage County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Medinah home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Medinah$534,849
- 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.
- Medinah7
Zip codes with a Medinah address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Medinah — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.