Plainfield, Illinois.
Typical home $428,671 (+1.8% in a year), asking rent $3,027 (+2.9%). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,211 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,762 +2%
- $420,908$428,671 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $95,773 +29%
- $332,897$428,671 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.
- Plainfield$2,250
- 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 Plainfield, IL rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Plainfield, IL rose 2.9% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Plainfield runs $484/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $770 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,511 a month against $3,027 rent: a $2,250 mortgage payment, plus $802 property tax and $459 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Plainfield
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,511
- Renting$3,027
- Mortgage only$2,250
Property tax · $802/mo 2.24% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Will County, IL
Insurance & upkeep · $459/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Plainfield, Will County, Illinois
Plainfield is a village of 44,762 people in Will County. Half its households earn more than $144,000 a year and half less, against $109,984 across Will County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Plainfield was 4.5% in August 2026, and Will County had 1.6% 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. Plainfield is a village in Will County, home to a good many families and a population that has grown large for a village. Residents are somewhat younger than in many places, and household incomes run well above the county's. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Plainfield are Plainfield Schools, Diageo Plainfield, which blends and packages alcohol, and Meijer. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Phillips Park Zoo is the closest outing, a short drive away. Farther afield, Morton Arboretum is a botanical garden and Brookfield Zoo is a zoo, both a longer drive away, and the Kankakee River offers time by the water, also a longer drive. Winters are cold and snowy here, and summers are warm.
Report a mistake
- 14,634households
- 56%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 23%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 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 33 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Romeoville Weather Office weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Plainfield
- Plainfield SD 202School district3,542FTE
- Diageo PlainfieldBlending and packaging of concumable alcohol607
- MeijerRetail233
- TargetDiscount department stores203
- Summit School ServicesSchool and employee bus transportation197
- AramarkFood service contractors169
- Jewel Food StoresSupermarkets and other grocery stores166
- First Student143
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,164 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 wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Plainfield’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 Will County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Plainfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plainfield$428,671
- 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 Plainfield listings, and the typical home goes pending in 23 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.
- Plainfield36.42%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Plainfield23
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Plainfield339
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Plainfield113
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Plainfield$398,320
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Plainfield99.73%
Zip codes with a Plainfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plainfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Plainfield
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60586 | Plainfield | 47,834 | $3,147 | $392,406 |
| 60544 | Plainfield | 27,306 | $2,595 | $390,650 |
| 60585 | Plainfield | 25,960 | $3,898 | $561,152 |