Westmont, Illinois.
Typical home $410,887 (+4.3% in a year), asking rent $1,871 (+0.2%). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,094 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,833 +4%
- $394,054$410,887 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $86,868 +27%
- $324,020$410,887 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.
- Westmont$2,157
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Westmont, IL rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Westmont, IL rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Westmont runs $1,426/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $3,297 a month against $1,871 rent: a $2,157 mortgage payment, plus $700 property tax and $440 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Westmont
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,297
- Renting$1,871
- Mortgage only$2,157
Property tax · $700/mo 2.05% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for DuPage County, IL
Insurance & upkeep · $440/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Westmont, DuPage County, Illinois
Westmont is a village of 24,429 people in DuPage County. Half its households earn more than $88,090 a year and half less, against $112,096 across DuPage County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in Westmont was 5.2% in August 2026, and DuPage County had 1.2% 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. Westmont is a village in DuPage County, home to a community of residents who know one another well. Residents are older than the typical American, and many adults hold a four-year degree. Incomes run below the county's, and somewhat more households rent than across much of the county, with homes that cost a good deal to buy.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in banks, insurance and property. Among the larger workplaces in Westmont are JLL, a property management firm, First Student, and K-Five Construction, an asphalt paving company. Unemployment has risen compared with a year earlier, while jobs across the county have grown slightly. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Brookfield Zoo is a short drive away, and so is SeatGeek Stadium, a stadium for matches and concerts. Going further, a longer drive brings you to the Art Institute of Chicago, a museum in the city. Winters are cold and snowy enough to plan around, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
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- 10,694households
- 50%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 22%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. DuPage County had 629,392 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lisle-morton Arboretum weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Westmont
- JLLNonresidential property managing445
- First Student314
- K-Five ConstructionAsphalt paving278
- Burgess Square Healthcare and Rehabilitation CentreSkilled nursing facilities263
- Great Lakes Plumbing & Heating CompanyPlumbing and heating contractors263
- Bristol Bay IndustrialConstruction management, highway, road, street and bridge230
- Jewel Food StoresSupermarkets and other grocery stores213
- Cusd 201School district188FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 27 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,385 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 wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Westmont’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 DuPage County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Westmont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Westmont$410,887
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Westmont listings, and the typical home goes pending in 11 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Westmont23.90%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Westmont11
- United States21
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Westmont46
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Westmont19
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Westmont$386,119
- United States$371,553
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Westmont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Westmont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.