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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 +3.3% YoY. inventory, +12.4% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 3.3% YoY while the median home got up 0.9% bigger, so value per square foot is down 2.9%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 60540 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 24.5% of this ZIP's 15,161 occupied households, on a median household income of $157K.
| Measure | ZIP 60540 | DuPage County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $157K | $112K | +$45K |
| Below Poverty Level | 3.7% | 6.6% | -2.9% |
| Median Age | 41.50 | 40.20 | +1.30 |
| Total Population | 42,252 | 930,024 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.69 | 2.61 | +0.08 |
| Owner-Occupied | 75.5% | 73.1% | +2.4% |
| Worked From Home | 27.7% | 21.5% | +6.2% |
| Mean Commute | 28.40 | 27.70 | +0.70 |
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 0.3% to 930,024: residents under 18 are down 0.7% and those 65 and over are up 3.3%.
County median household income is $112K, 6.6% of residents are below the poverty level, 21.5% work from home.