Midlothian, Illinois.
Typical home $238,575 (+4.6% in a year), asking rent $1,492 . Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$700 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,564 +5%
- $228,011$238,575 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,143 +27%
- $187,432$238,575 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.
- Midlothian$1,252
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Midlothian, IL rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Midlothian, Cook County, Illinois
Midlothian is a village of 14,325 people in Cook County. Half its households earn more than $70,000 a year and half less, against $83,498 across Cook County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Midlothian is a village in Cook County, home to a mix of younger and older residents. Most homes are lived in by their owners, a larger share than you'd find across much of the county, and household incomes run below the county's. Winters are cold, with plenty of snow, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops, and professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in the village are the school districts, including Bremen CHSD Schools and Midlothian Schools, along with Aperion Care Midlothian. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Art Institute of Chicago and the Field Museum of Natural History are among the city's best-known museums, each a longer drive away. Millennium Park, a city garden and gathering spot, is also a longer drive away, as is Wrigley Field, a stadium.
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- 5,692households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 8%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 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 68°. About 39 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chicago Midway Airport 3SW weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Midlothian
- Bremen CHSD 228School district517FTE
- Midlothian SD 143School district226FTE
- Aperion Care MidlothianSkilled nursing facilities82
- Berkot's Super FoodsGrocery stores54
- TAG ChicagoAutomobile dealers, new only or new and used40
- MidlothianMail and parcel delivery30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 206 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
- 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 Midlothian’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 Cook County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Midlothian home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Midlothian$238,575
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Midlothian listings — 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.
- Midlothian29.12%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Midlothian40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Midlothian14
Zip codes with a Midlothian address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Midlothian — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.