Phoenix, Illinois.
Typical home $87,154 (-1.0% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$220 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $906 -1%
- $88,060$87,154 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $2,011 +2%
- $85,143$87,154 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.
- Phoenix$457
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Phoenix, IL fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Phoenix, Cook County, Illinois
Phoenix is a village of 1,708 people in Cook County. 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 people in Cook County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Phoenix is a small village in Cook County, home to a small community. Incomes here are well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical. Homes are modestly priced, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, manufacturing and shops. Across Cook County, the largest workplaces include Chicago Public Schools, Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. A typical commute takes a fair stretch of the morning, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Chicago's well-known sights are a longer drive away. The Art Institute of Chicago and the Field Museum of Natural History are museums, and Millennium Park is a garden in the city. Winters are cold and snowy, with a January that stays near freezing by day, and summers turn warm in July, so the outdoor stops suit the warmer months best.
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- 748households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Cook County 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 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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cook County
- Chicago Public Schools Dist 299School district37,732FTE
- University of Illinois ChicagoUniversity or college14,460
- University of ChicagoUniversity or college13,622
- Northwestern UniversityUniversity or college11,742
- University of Chicago HospitalsGeneral hospital9,616FTE
- Northwestern Medical GroupMds' offices9,478
- Rush University Medical CenterGeneral hospital9,416FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services8,403
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3,702 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 793,086 people in all across the county; Phoenix has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Phoenix’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.
Phoenix home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Phoenix$87,154
- 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.
- Phoenix10
Zip codes with a Phoenix address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Phoenix — 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.