Ringwood, Illinois.
Typical home $504,619 (+7.5% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,530 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $35,378 +8%
- $469,241$504,619 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $132,992 +36%
- $371,627$504,619 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.
- Ringwood$2,649
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Ringwood, IL rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ringwood, McHenry County, Illinois
Ringwood is a village of 844 people in McHenry County. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in McHenry County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in McHenry County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ringwood is a small village in McHenry County, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Far fewer households live below the poverty line than is typical, and home values run high. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and a fair amount of rain and melted snow falls through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing a good share of people. A fair number work from home. Across McHenry County, some of the largest workplaces are Northern Illinois Medical Center, Amazon and the Woodstock school district, and the county has added a few more jobs than it had the year before.
Things to do. A short drive away, Moraine Hills State Park and Chain O' Lakes State Park offer protected natural areas for walking and time by the water. Also a short drive off is the Woodstock Opera House, a theatre in the county's best-known small-town square. For a bigger day out, Geneva Lake and Six Flags Great America are a longer drive away.
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- 274households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 11%work from home
What people in McHenry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McHenry County had 98,058 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 34 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mc Henry -wg Stratton L&d weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McHenry County
- Cusd 300School district2,847FTE
- Northern Illinois Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,246FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,084
- IntrenPole line construction1,635
- Huntley Comm Sch Dist 158 SchoolsSchool district1,535FTE
- Woodstock CUSD 200School district1,226FTE
- Crystal Lake CCSD 47School district1,068FTE
- StrykerAbrasive points, wheels, and disks, dental, manufacturing973
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 261 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 36,753 people in all across the county; Ringwood has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ringwood’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 McHenry County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Ringwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ringwood$504,619
- 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.
Zip codes with a Ringwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ringwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.