Willowbrook, Illinois.
Typical home $325,821 (+3.7% in a year), asking rent $2,090 (+6.3%). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$881 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,484 +4%
- $314,336$325,821 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,315 +31%
- $248,506$325,821 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.
- Willowbrook$1,710
- 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 Willowbrook, IL rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Willowbrook, IL rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Willowbrook runs $524/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $609 in Nov 2023.
That is $2,614 a month against $2,090 rent: a $1,710 mortgage payment, plus $555 property tax and $349 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Willowbrook
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$2,614
- Renting$2,090
- Mortgage only$1,710
Property tax · $555/mo 2.05% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for DuPage County, IL
Insurance & upkeep · $349/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 Willowbrook, DuPage County, Illinois
Willowbrook is a village of 9,236 people in DuPage County. Half its households earn more than $99,239 a year and half less, against $112,096 across DuPage County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in DuPage County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the 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 24 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. Willowbrook is a village in DuPage County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run a little below the county's. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly hot by July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year. Most adults have a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, manufacturing, and transport and warehousing. Trane Technologies and the Gower school district are among the largest workplaces in the village itself, along with Sunrise Senior Living. Commutes are of middling length, and some people work from home.
Things to do. SeatGeek Stadium is a short drive away, and Brookfield Zoo is close by too. For a day out, the Art Institute of Chicago is a well-known museum and Millennium Park a city garden, both a longer drive away.
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- 3,965households
- 53%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 12%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 33° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 64°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Little Red School Hse weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Willowbrook
- Trane Technologies163
- Gower SD 62School district121FTE
- Sunrise Senior Living, LLC.Nursing care facilities75
- WBD Carrier AnnexMail and parcel delivery66
- Morgan Harbour ConstructionCommercial building construction65
- Parts Authority - SWMW - 450 - WillowbrookAutomobile & other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers except tires58
- Village of WillowbrookCity and town managers' offices49
- To Go transportationBulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 655 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
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of WillowbrookRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Willowbrook’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.
Willowbrook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Willowbrook$325,821
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Willowbrook 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.
- Willowbrook28.78%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Willowbrook50
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Willowbrook19
Zip codes with a Willowbrook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Willowbrook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.