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A tight-supply market with no rental pool to price against. Demand is visible here; the rent math is not.
What would change this read: the median listing price is −3.5% YoY. inventory, −3.2% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 3.5% YoY while the median home got down 9.6% bigger, so value per square foot is up 10.1%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 60014 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 20.1% of this ZIP's 17,644 occupied households, on a median household income of $109K.
| Measure | ZIP 60014 | McHenry County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $109K | $105K | +$4K |
| Below Poverty Level | 7.2% | 6.2% | +1.0% |
| Median Age | 39.90 | 40.70 | -0.80 |
| Total Population | 48,590 | 312,591 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.74 | 2.64 | +0.10 |
| Owner-Occupied | 79.9% | 82.7% | -2.8% |
| Worked From Home | 15.4% | 16.1% | -0.7% |
| Mean Commute | 29.30 | 30.10 | -0.80 |
Higher or lower is not itself good or bad — it describes the neighborhood, not the investment.
ZIP-level figures come from ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP codes. A missing value is suppressed or unavailable at this sample size, not zero. Estimates for 2019–2020 use the 2010 ZCTA boundaries and 2021–2024 the 2020 ones, so a step between those two years may be a boundary change rather than real movement.
County population is up 0.4% to 312,591: residents under 18 are down 0.8% and those 65 and over are up 4.0%.
County median household income is $105K, 6.2% of residents are below the poverty level, 16.1% work from home.