Mettawa, Illinois.
Typical home $1,011,753 (+9.4% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,095 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $87,282 +9%
- $924,471$1,011,753 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $305,121 +43%
- $706,633$1,011,753 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.
- Mettawa$5,310
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Mettawa, IL rose 9.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mettawa, Lake County, Illinois
Mettawa is a village of 533 people in Lake County. Half its households earn more than $181,333 a year and half less, against $110,416 across Lake County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Lake County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mettawa is a small village in Lake County, home to very few people. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, incomes run well above the county's, and typical home values are high. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and the share living below the poverty line is small. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, schools, hospitals and social care, and shops. Across Lake County, some of the largest workplaces are AbbVie, Abbott and Discover Financial Services. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier, with unemployment lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. The Chicago Botanic Garden and Six Flags Great America are both a short drive away, one a botanical garden and the other an amusement park. Farther afield, the Art Institute of Chicago is a major museum, a longer drive away.
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- 230households
- 74%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lake County had 325,826 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 63°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waukegan weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lake County
- AbbVie (Abbott Park )Pharmaceutical preparations manufacturing8,297
- AbbVie - US FieldOffice administration services6,857
- AbbottSurgical and medical instrument manufacturing4,909
- Discover Financial ServicesOffice administration services4,822
- AbbVie (Mettawa)Office administration services3,503
- CDWComputer peripheral equipment merchant wholesalers3,224
- AbbVie (North Chicago)Pharmaceutical preparations manufacturing3,218
- Zebra Technologies Corporation (IL151)Computer terminals manufacturing2,548
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 579 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 117,782 people in all across the county; Mettawa has two of its own. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mettawa’s census tracts, 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 Lake County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Mettawa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mettawa$1,011,753
- 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.
- Mettawa7
Zip codes with a Mettawa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mettawa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.