River Grove, Illinois.
Typical home $323,724 (+8.8% in a year), asking rent $1,932 . Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$937 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,086 +9%
- $297,639$323,724 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,296 +29%
- $251,429$323,724 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.
- River Grove$1,699
- 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 River Grove, IL rose 8.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in River Grove, Cook County, Illinois
River Grove is a village of 10,612 people in Cook County. Half its households earn more than $69,858 a year and half less, against $83,498 across Cook County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% 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 transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. River Grove is a village in Cook County, just outside Chicago. Household incomes here run below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect near a big city. More homes are lived in by their owners than rented, though renting is common too. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly warm by July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by transport, warehouses and utilities, then restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The largest workplaces in River Grove include Triton College, a two-year college, and several school districts such as Elmwood Park CUSD and River Grove Schools. Commutes are fairly long, and a modest number of people work from home. Unemployment across Cook County has risen over the past year, while the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. Some of the city's best-known ballparks and arenas are a short drive away: the United Center, a stadium, and Wrigley Field, another stadium. For a day out, the Art Institute of Chicago is a well-known museum a longer drive away. Millennium Park, a garden in the city, is also a longer drive from the village.
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- 4,196households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 14%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, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in River Grove
- Triton CollegeTwo-year college1,107
- Elmwood Park CUSD 401School district345FTE
- Rhodes SD 84-5School district115FTE
- River Grove SD 85-5School district86FTE
- Village of River Grove Fire DepartmentAmbulance and fire service combined55
- Cook County Sheriff's DepartmentSheriffs' offices51
- The BazaarGeneral merchandise, nondurable goods, merchant wholesalers50
- StarSafety valves, industrial-type, manufacturing47
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,176 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- 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 River Grove’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.
River Grove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- River Grove$323,724
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 River Grove 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.
- River Grove34.37%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- River Grove22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- River Grove9
Zip codes with a River Grove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls River Grove — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.