Mokena, Illinois.
Typical home $458,404 (+4.8% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,309 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,097 +5%
- $437,307$458,404 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $114,085 +33%
- $344,319$458,404 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.
- Mokena$2,406
- 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 Mokena, IL rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mokena, Will County, Illinois
Mokena is a village of 19,887 people in Will County. Half its households earn more than $123,889 a year and half less, against $109,984 across Will County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Will County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mokena is a village in Will County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and the population is on the older side. Household incomes run above the county's, and poverty is low. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers turn warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in Mokena are Mokena Schools, Provisur Technologies Mokena and Ozinga Bros. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Chicagoland Speedway, a race track, is a short drive away. Chicago's museums and stadiums are a longer drive away, including the Art Institute of Chicago and the Field Museum of Natural History, along with Soldier Field, where football is played.
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- 7,374households
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Will County had 267,868 jobs in 2025, 1.6% 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, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mokena
- GFL Environmental Services USAOil, waste, merchant wholesalers464
- Provisur Technologies MokenaFood choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers manufacturing243
- Mokena SD 159School district236FTE
- Ozinga BrosReady-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing193
- ITW Smart Components NA, MokenaMotor vehicle trimmings manufacturing155
- FedExCourier and express delivery services135
- CIT Trucks - MokenaAutomobile dealers, new only or new and used96
- JCPenneyRetail80
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,092 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mokena’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Will County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Mokena home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mokena$458,404
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Mokena listings, and the typical home goes pending in 11 days — 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.
- Mokena31.32%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Mokena11
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mokena75
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mokena30
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Mokena$426,837
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Mokena address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mokena — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.