Norridge, Illinois.
Typical home $416,982 (+7.6% in a year), asking rent $2,450 . Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,189 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $29,620 +8%
- $387,361$416,982 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $105,582 +34%
- $311,400$416,982 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.
- Norridge$2,189
- 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 Norridge, IL rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Norridge, Cook County, Illinois
Norridge is a village of 15,251 people in Cook County. Half its households earn more than $87,807 a year and half less, against $83,498 across Cook County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% 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 professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Norridge is a village in Cook County, and it is a settled, mostly owner-occupied place. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents tend to be older than in much of the country. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than a glance at a big-city map might suggest.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, manufacturing, and banks, insurance and property also common. Within the village, some of the largest workplaces are Central Baptist Village, a skilled nursing facility, along with Target and the Ridgewood school district. Commutes run long, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. Much of what draws people out is a drive away in Chicago. Wrigley Field, a stadium, and the United Center, another stadium, are both a short drive away. The Art Institute of Chicago, a museum, is a longer drive away. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm.
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- 5,767households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 9%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 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 Norridge
- Central Baptist VillageSkilled nursing facilities262
- TargetDiscount department stores205
- AmazonSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores154
- Ridgewood CHSD 234School district129FTE
- Norridge SD 80School district122FTE
- Kohl's117
- Lexco CableWire rope merchant wholesalers107
- Caputo's Fresh Market - NRGrocery stores82
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,076 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Norridge’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.
Norridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Norridge$416,982
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Norridge 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.
- Norridge34.26%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Norridge35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Norridge15
Zip codes with a Norridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Norridge — 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.