Sugar Grove, Illinois.
Typical home $464,419 (+4.9% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,384 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,546 +5%
- $442,874$464,419 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $132,330 +40%
- $332,089$464,419 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.
- Sugar Grove$2,438
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Sugar Grove, IL rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois
Sugar Grove is a village of 9,278 people in Kane County. Half its households earn more than $121,207 a year and half less, against $103,163 across Kane County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Kane County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sugar Grove is a village in Kane County where people tend to be older than in most places, and nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Incomes run above the county's, and fewer households than usual are living in poverty. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers turn warm by July. Rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, shops and manufacturing also employing many. Within the village, some of the larger workplaces are Terrazon Group, which lays underground cable, Terramac, a wholesaler of all-terrain vehicles, and Producers Chemical Company. A good share of residents work from home, and for those who travel to a job, the commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. The Air Classics Museum of Aviation is in or beside town. A short drive away are Phillips Park Zoo and the Aurora Regional Fire Museum. For a longer outing, the Morton Arboretum is a botanical garden a longer drive away.
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- 3,454households
- 46%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 27%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kane County had 213,552 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chicago Aurora Municipal Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sugar Grove
- Terrazon GroupUnderground cable laying45
- Terramac - Sugar GroveAll-terrain vehicles merchant wholesalers43
- Producers Chemical CompanyIndustrial chemicals merchant wholesalers38
- Sugar Grove Fire Protection DistrictFire rescue37
- Deep Coat IndustriesAirborne radio communications equipment manufacturing27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 190 people in all. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sugar Grove’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 Kane County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Sugar Grove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sugar Grove$464,419
- 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 Sugar 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.
- Sugar Grove35.34%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sugar Grove42
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sugar Grove16
Zip codes with a Sugar Grove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sugar Grove — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.