Cook County, IL · 28,402 properties with county records
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Chicago 60644 is in Cook, IL, part of the Chicago Metro. The ZIP-wide typical value in Chicago 60644 is $220,953 (Zillow Home Value Index, September 2026), up 5.0% from a year earlier. Homes that sold went under contract in a median 69 days, and 22% of listings took a price cut (Redfin Data Center, period ending Sep 30, 2026). On Lotvox's market-leverage reading of that data, with 4.5 months of supply, neither buyers nor sellers hold a clear edge. The Lotvox Turnover Index is not published for 60644 yet: it appears only where a held-out test on the county's recorded sales beats chance. Across Cook's 165 ZIPs with a Zillow value, the middle one is $332,308, so 60644 sits 34% below the county middle. Typical rent is $1,312 a month (Zillow Observed Rent Index, September 2026). Lotvox holds county assessor records for 28,402 properties in 60644.
Headline value data through September 2026. Each source below carries its own date.
Is 60644 a buyer's or seller's market?
By Lotvox's leverage reading of Redfin data through Sep 30, 2026, 60644 is a balanced market. Homes went under contract in a median 69 days with 4.5 months of supply.
What do homes in 60644 sell for?
The ZIP-wide typical value in 60644 is $220,953 (Zillow Home Value Index, September 2026), up 5.0% in a year. County records put the median at about $113 per square foot (computed Apr 21, 2026).
Who is likely to sell in 60644?
Lotvox only publishes its Turnover Index where a held-out test on recorded sales beats chance, and 60644 has not passed that test yet. When it does, the score appears here.
How does 60644 compare to Cook?
60644's ZIP-wide typical value of $220,953 compares with a middle value of $332,308 across Cook's 165 ZIPs. Both are Zillow Home Value Index figures for September 2026.
Where does this 60644 data come from?
Values and rents come from Zillow's research data, sales pace from the Redfin Data Center, and property counts and turnover from county assessor and deed records. Each number on this page carries its own date, and the method is published at lotvox.com/methodology.
Rent: Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). Ownership cost: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), 20% down, 30-year loan at the current mortgage rate, plus 1.2% of the price a year.
Rent to price — the investor's question first
14×
price to annual rent
Lower is friendlier to a buy-to-let case. This is a ratio of published medians, not a yield on any particular property.
Price: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). Annual rent: 12 months of Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI).
Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.
Buyer / seller
buyer-timing lens
Balanced Market
Needs 21.9% correction for affordability
DOM: 89d (rising) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly
Score Components
Payment Burden (25%)50
Valuation Gap (25%)10
Supply & Demand (20%)100
Buy vs Rent (15%)25
Cancellation Rate (10%)25
Days on Market (5%)75
Balanced market in 60644. List price is roughly fair — focus on condition and value. Payment burden: 35.5% of median income. Median days on market: 89. Renting is approximately 7% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 12.8).
Balanced market conditions. Prices roughly aligned with fundamentals — similar to stable periods in 2014-2015.
WARMINGBALANCED
Market is warming with rising prices. Conditions are balanced between buyers and sellers. Prices up 5.0% YoY.
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Median price: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). Median rent: Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). Days on market and active listings: Redfin Data Center, rolling 90 days.
Valuation
3 lenses, different anchors
vs assessor
+4.1%
Market vs assessed value — a tax-roll lag, not a deal signal.
Avg assessor$230,000
county CAMA · properties_v
vs income
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Fair-value model not available for this market.
fair_value_scores · 10-state coverage
vs county comps
+44.8%
County-wide market — the widest, slowest signal.
Cook+44.8%
Cook+44.8%
Lotvox comps · mv_valuation_gap
Read together: Above county comps but sustainable on local incomes.
Housing pulse — Housing pulse could not be loaded (429).
Price bands
mix-shift
Price Bands — the median behind the median
A single median rises whenever expensive homes become a bigger share of what sells, even if no tier got more expensive. These are the tiers underneath it, computed from recorded arms-length deed transactions in Cook.
Current tiers · 12 months to Aug 25floor 10 sales/tier
7 tiers had too few sales at every level and are left blank rather than estimated.
Tier
Median
$/sqft
Sales
Share
Source
Under $250k
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$250k–$500k
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$500k–$750k
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$750k–$1M
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1M–$1.5M
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1.5M–$2M
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$2M+
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
All sales (the headline median)
$310k
$225
12
100%
COUNTY · Cook, IL
No mix-shift history for this area. no geography from this ZIP up to metro has 8+ quarters of 10+ recorded arms-length sales across at least 4 price tiers. Trends are drawn only from recorded transactions; the last-sale snapshot above cannot carry a time series, because a property that sold twice keeps only its latest sale — which drags the history upward through the tiers and would invent the very mix shift this section exists to test for.
National context — not local
NAR's aggregate existing-home median for the United States and the Midwest census region. This is the figure the tiers above are a check on. It is national/regional and says nothing about 60644.
United States
Midwest
Copyright, National Association of Realtors. Reprinted with permission. Retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED publishes a rolling 13-month window for these series.
Tiers computed from Lotvox parcel and deed substrate through Aug 25 (10 later months withheld as partially loaded). Sample floor 10 sales per tier; below it a figure is drawn from the county or metro and labelled, or left blank. Multi-parcel bulk deeds and duplicate records are excluded.
ZIP score grades housing; county score adds macro distress (jobs, debt, poverty). They answer different questions.
This ZIP code crosses county lines. Property data shows Cook (66.7%) and Cook (33.3%). County metrics below are shown separately for each county.
Cook (66.7%)
Cook (33.3%)
ZIP 60644→2 counties
12-Month Direction
+19Moderate Improvement
Confidence
100%
DeterioratingStableImproving
BuildersLens Market Intelligence
Market Score
38· Weak
Market Score grades housing-market conditions (affordability, valuation, supply). The county Healthy/Moderate/Distressed badge measures economic distress (jobs, debt, poverty) — the two can read differently.
Payment Burden
38.4%
severe
Source: Freddie Mac PMMS (FRED MORTGAGE30US) 7.32% · Zillow ZHVI · Census income · Updated 2026-10-22
Price-to-rent
14x
favors buying
Source: Zillow ZHVI ÷ (Zillow ZORI × 12)
Valuation0
+44.8%
overvalued
Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15
Supply/Demand
4.5 mo
balanced
Source: Redfin Data Center (ZIP): inventory ÷ monthly homes sold · Updated 2026-09-30
Insurance Risk
28/100
low_risk
Source: FEMA/NFIP · Updated 2026-04
County distress indicators
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Economic indicators are mixed relative to comparable U.S. counties.
Unemployment Rate
5.9%
IL 5.2%US 4.4%
Higher than many comparable counties
Source: BLS LAUS · 2026-0858d ago
Poverty Rate
13.2%
IL 11.6%US 12.6%
Near national averages
Median Household Income
$81,797
IL $83,872US $82,006
Higher than most U.S. counties
Cost of Living (RPP)
97
IL 97US 100.3
Near national averages
Home Value (ZHVI)$334,930
County data: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), BLS, Census ACS, CDC, FBI UCR, Federal Reserve, USDA · Coverage derived from property records · Counties with <2% coverage excluded as likely data errors
