Worth, Illinois.
Typical home $277,185 (+4.9% in a year), asking rent $1,515 . Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$823 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,948 +5%
- $264,237$277,185 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,875 +31%
- $211,310$277,185 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.
- Worth$1,455
- 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 Worth, IL rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Worth, Cook County, Illinois
Worth is a village of 10,970 people in Cook County. Half its households earn more than $56,288 a year and half less, against $83,498 across Cook County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Worth is a village in Cook County, in the Chicago area, with a population that has stayed fairly steady in recent years. Incomes here run well below the county's, and more households live below the poverty line than is typical elsewhere. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is usual across the county. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the larger workplaces in Worth are Worth Schools, All Types Elevators and Schroeder Material. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. SeatGeek Stadium, a stadium for sports and concerts, is a short drive away. Farther into the city, a longer drive away, are the Art Institute of Chicago, a museum, and Millennium Park, a garden in the middle of downtown. The Field Museum of Natural History, also a longer drive away, is another museum worth the trip.
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- 4,433households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents 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, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Worth
- Worth SD 127School district155FTE
- WorthMail and parcel delivery70
- All Types ElevatorsConstruction elevator erection and dismantling49
- Schroeder MaterialGarden center, landscape and drainage supply24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 143 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 wavesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Worth’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 Cook County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Worth home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Worth$277,185
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Worth 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.
- Worth33.67%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Worth34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Worth14
Zip codes with a Worth address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Worth — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.