Winfield, Illinois.
Typical home $460,942 (+4.2% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,282 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,552 +4%
- $442,390$460,942 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $112,865 +32%
- $348,077$460,942 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.
- Winfield$2,419
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Winfield, IL rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Winfield, DuPage County, Illinois
Winfield is a village of 9,835 people in DuPage County. Half its households earn more than $135,795 a year and half less, against $112,096 across DuPage County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Winfield is a village in DuPage County where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and where the population is older than in many places. Incomes run well above the county's, and very few people live below the poverty line. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days and the year's rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services and manufacturing. Across DuPage County, some of the largest workplaces are Central Dupage Hospital, Edward Hospital and College of DuPage. A typical commute is a fairly ordinary one for the Chicago area, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. The Morton Arboretum, a botanical garden, is a short drive away and suits a quiet walk among trees. Chicago is a longer drive, and it holds the Art Institute of Chicago, a museum, and Millennium Park, a garden in the middle of the city. The Field Museum of Natural History is also in the city, a longer drive away.
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- 4,019households
- 60%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 26%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 30° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Chicago Dupage Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in DuPage County
- Medix Staffing SolutionsTemporary staffing services4,319
- Indian Prairie CUSD 204School district3,938FTE
- Central Dupage HospitalGeneral hospital3,308FTE
- NM Regional Medical GroupMds' offices3,167
- Edward HospitalGeneral hospital2,491FTE
- College of DuPageTwo-year college2,166
- Cusd 200School district2,046FTE
- Elmhurst Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital2,000FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,275 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 192,956 people in all across the county; Winfield has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of WinfieldRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Winfield’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 DuPage County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Winfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Winfield$460,942
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Winfield 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.
- Winfield27.08%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Winfield33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Winfield13
Zip codes with a Winfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Winfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.