Robbins, Illinois.
Typical home $115,846 (+7.7% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$403 (+196%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,283 +8%
- $107,563$115,846 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,964 +51%
- $76,881$115,846 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.
- Robbins$608
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Robbins, IL rose 7.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Robbins, Cook County, Illinois
Robbins is a village of 4,629 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Robbins is a small village in Cook County, south of Chicago. Poverty is more common here than in most places, and the typical household income is below the county's. Homes cost far less than in much of the Chicago area, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is usual across the county.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, manufacturing and shops. Across Cook County, some of the largest workplaces are Chicago Public Schools, Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. Unemployment across the county is higher than a year ago, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. SeatGeek Stadium, a stadium, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Art Institute of Chicago, a museum, and Millennium Park, a garden in the city. Winters here are cold and snowy, with a good deal of rain and melted snow over the year, and summers are warm.
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- 1,585households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 29%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
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 33° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 68°. About 39 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chicago Midway Airport 3SW weather station, 7 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; Robbins has none 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Robbins’ 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.
Robbins home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Robbins$115,846
- 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.
- Robbins10
Zip codes with a Robbins address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Robbins — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.