Riverside, Illinois.
Typical home $564,016 (+8.6% in a year), asking rent $1,698 . Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,562 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $44,510 +9%
- $519,506$564,016 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $133,374 +31%
- $430,642$564,016 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.
- Riverside$2,960
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Riverside, IL rose 8.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Riverside, Cook County, Illinois
Riverside is a village of 9,298 people in Cook County. Half its households earn more than $153,686 a year and half less, against $83,498 across Cook County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Riverside is a village in Cook County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and households earn well above the county's typical income. Residents are somewhat older than in many towns, and a very large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and summers warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in banks, insurance and property, or in manufacturing. The largest workplaces in the village include Riverside SD 96 and Riverside-Brookfield Twp Schools, along with the village's fire department. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Brookfield Zoo is in or beside town. A short drive away are the Chicago River and the United Center, a stadium. With a longer drive, the Art Institute of Chicago, a museum, is within reach.
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- 3,516households
- 72%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 28%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 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 68°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chicago Midway Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Riverside
- Riverside SD 96School district258FTE
- Riverside-Brookfield Twp SD 208School district197FTE
- Village of Riverside - Fire DepartmentFire departments)38
- RiversideMail and parcel delivery29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 67 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Riverside’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.
Riverside home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Riverside$564,016
- 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.
- Riverside15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Riverside6
Zip codes with a Riverside address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Riverside — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.