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A market with no active rental pool to price against. The sale-side figures below are the whole picture.
What would change this read: the median listing price is −6.9% YoY. inventory, −11.7% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 6.9% YoY while the median home got down 0.9% bigger, so value per square foot is down 5.6%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 60409 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 44.3% of this ZIP's 14,332 occupied households, on a median household income of $55K.
| Measure | ZIP 60409 | Cook County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $55K | $83K | -$28K |
| Below Poverty Level | 23.4% | 13.5% | +9.9% |
| Median Age | 38.60 | 38.00 | +0.60 |
| Total Population | 35,100 | 5,182,090 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.45 | 2.43 | +0.02 |
| Owner-Occupied | 55.7% | 57.7% | -2.0% |
| Worked From Home | 9.8% | 18.9% | -9.1% |
| Mean Commute | 34.40 | 31.50 | +2.90 |
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 down 0.1% to 5,182,090: residents under 18 are down 1.7% and those 65 and over are up 2.6%.
County median household income is $83K, 13.5% of residents are below the poverty level, 18.9% work from home.