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A dense professional and commercial employment center

Municipal retail activity, residential construction permits and monthly sales-related tax disbursements, with county and ZIP context separately labeled.

2025 retail activity and permits; tax disbursements through Sep 2026

At a glance

Verified headline measures

Every value below is labeled with its geography, reference period, and official source.

Business applications

15,622
DuPage County2025

Applications, annual change

Derived
11.3%
DuPage County2024–2025

Employer establishments

1,419
ZIP Code 60523 and the Village of Oak Brook overlap substantially but are not coterminous. ZIP-based workplace totals must not be read as municipal totals.
ZIP Code 605232023

Employment

37,633
ZIP Code 60523 and the Village of Oak Brook overlap substantially but are not coterminous. ZIP-based workplace totals must not be read as municipal totals.
ZIP Code 60523March 2023

Annual payroll

$3.63B
ZIP Code 60523 and the Village of Oak Brook overlap substantially but are not coterminous. ZIP-based workplace totals must not be read as municipal totals.
ZIP Code 605232023

Total retail sales

$2.25B
Oak Brook municipality2025

General-merchandise sales

$2.09B
Oak Brook municipality2025

Retail sales per resident

Derived
$279,694
A large visitor and worker market makes this an activity ratio, not resident spending.
Oak Brook municipality2025 sales / 2020–2024 ACS population

New housing units authorized

20
New privately owned housing authorized by permits; construction may not have started or finished. The Oak Brook permit office covers both DuPage and Cook county portions. Annual estimates include imputation where needed; reported-only values and reporting months are retained in the snapshot. 12 reporting months in 2025.
Oak Brook permit jurisdiction (DuPage and Cook counties)2025

Authorized construction valuation

$46.6M
New privately owned housing authorized by permits; construction may not have started or finished. The Oak Brook permit office covers both DuPage and Cook county portions. Annual estimates include imputation where needed; reported-only values and reporting months are retained in the snapshot. 12 reporting months in 2025.
Oak Brook permit jurisdiction (DuPage and Cook counties)2025

Monthly revenue

Sales-related tax disbursements

State-distributed receipts by tax type, dated by disbursement month. The latest voucher is 09/03/2026, for july 2026 collections. These receipts are distinct from taxable sales and annual budget revenue.

Sep 2026 disbursement

$2,050,756.33

Municipal sales tax

Same month, year over year

+12.6%

(This month − same month last year) ÷ same month last year. Unavailable when the prior value is missing or zero.

Rolling 12-month receipts

$23,472,675.90

12 of 12 months reported for this tax code. All 12 are required for a total.

Dec 2025 municipal and non-home-rule receipts were recovered from Illinois sales-related tax disbursements — FY2026 annual workbook. The annual workbook does not provide separate monthly voucher, collection, interest or fee details; those fields remain unavailable.

Grocery-tax rows appear only in recent months; earlier absent rows remain missing. Tax policy changes can affect year-over-year comparisons.

Municipal sales tax: monthly disbursements

IDOR warrant amounts. Gaps indicate unavailable records. Each disbursement's collection period and official workbook are listed below.

Village of Oak Brook (DuPage and Cook counties)Sep 2024–Sep 2026 disbursements
Monthly amounts, reporting periods and sources
Municipal sales tax. USD; interest is already included in the warrant. CSV downloads preserve interest and administrative fees where published separately, and leave unavailable details blank.
DisbursementCollectionsWarrantYear over yearRolling 12 monthsSource
Sep 2026JULY 2026 COLLECTIONS$2,050,756.33+12.6%$23,472,675.90Illinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2026-09
Aug 2026JUNE 2026 COLLECTIONS$2,150,865.22+11.8%$23,243,179.96Illinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2026-08
Jul 2026MAY 2026 COLLECTIONS$1,860,563.25+2.4%$23,016,465.68Illinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2026-07
Jun 2026APRIL 2026 COLLECTIONS$1,914,196.52-3.0%$22,972,940.98Illinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2026-06
May 2026MARCH 2026 COLLECTIONS$1,668,913.76+20.5%$23,032,753.88Illinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2026-05
Apr 2026FEBRUARY 2026 COLLECTIONS$1,631,255.85+15.3%$22,748,724.48Illinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2026-04
Mar 2026JANUARY 2026 COLLECTIONS$2,800,800.69+26.1%$22,532,150.39Illinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2026-03
Feb 2026DECEMBER 2025 COLLECTIONS$1,948,668.94+19.7%$21,952,333.42Illinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2026-02
Jan 2026NOVEMBER 2025 COLLECTIONS$1,910,616.67+21.4%$21,631,881.28Illinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2026-01
Dec 2025Unavailable$1,814,004.56+15.5%$21,295,153.35Illinois sales-related tax disbursements — FY2026 annual workbook

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Nov 2025SEPTEMBER 2025 COLLECTIONS$1,870,206.70+15.9%$21,051,873.10Illinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2025-11
Oct 2025AUGUST 2025 COLLECTIONS$1,851,827.41+16.4%$20,795,999.68Illinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2025-10
Sep 2025JULY 2025 COLLECTIONS$1,821,260.39+19.1%$20,534,824.88Illinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2025-09
Aug 2025JUNE 2025 COLLECTIONS$1,924,150.94Unavailable$20,242,217.42Illinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2025-08
Jul 2025MAY 2025 COLLECTIONS$1,817,038.55UnavailableUnavailableIllinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2025-07
Jun 2025APRIL 2025 COLLECTIONS$1,974,009.42UnavailableUnavailableIllinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2025-06
May 2025MARCH 2025 COLLECTIONS$1,384,884.36UnavailableUnavailableIllinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2025-05
Apr 2025FEBRUARY 2025 COLLECTIONS$1,414,681.76UnavailableUnavailableIllinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2025-04
Mar 2025JANUARY 2025 COLLECTIONS$2,220,983.72UnavailableUnavailableIllinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2025-03
Feb 2025DECEMBER 2024 COLLECTIONS$1,628,216.80UnavailableUnavailableIllinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2025-02
Jan 2025NOVEMBER 2024 COLLECTIONS$1,573,888.74UnavailableUnavailableIllinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2025-01
Dec 2024OCTOBER 2024 COLLECTIONS$1,570,724.31UnavailableUnavailableIllinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2024-12
Nov 2024SEPTEMBER 2024 COLLECTIONS$1,614,333.28UnavailableUnavailableIllinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2024-11
Oct 2024AUGUST 2024 COLLECTIONS$1,590,652.61UnavailableUnavailableIllinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2024-10
Sep 2024JULY 2024 COLLECTIONS$1,528,652.93UnavailableUnavailableIllinois sales-related tax disbursements — 2024-09

Definitions: Illinois sales-related tax code definitions. Coverage is sales-related taxes distributed to Oak Brook vendor 390006378. No missing value is treated as a reported zero.

Change over time

Trend lines

Business applications
2021
13,995
2022
13,152
2023
13,418
2024
14,038
2025
15,622
DuPage County2021–2025
Housing units authorized annually

Blue: single-family units. Green: units in buildings with two or more units. New privately owned housing authorized by permits; construction may not have started or finished. The Oak Brook permit office covers both DuPage and Cook county portions. Annual estimates include imputation where needed; reported-only values and reporting months are retained in the snapshot. Reporting months by year: 2021: 12; 2022: 12; 2023: 12; 2024: 12; 2025: 12.

2021
5
Multifamily units: 0
Census residential building permits — 2021
2022
17
Multifamily units: 0
Census residential building permits — 2022
2023
14
Multifamily units: 0
Census residential building permits — 2023
2024
19
Multifamily units: 0
Census residential building permits — 2024
2025
20
Multifamily units: 0
Census residential building permits — 2025
Oak Brook permit jurisdiction (DuPage and Cook counties)2021–2025
Annual permit valuation

New privately owned housing authorized by permits; construction may not have started or finished. The Oak Brook permit office covers both DuPage and Cook county portions. Annual estimates include imputation where needed; reported-only values and reporting months are retained in the snapshot. Reporting months by year: 2021: 12; 2022: 12; 2023: 12; 2024: 12; 2025: 12.

2021
$8.5M
Census residential building permits — 2021
2022
$26.3M
Census residential building permits — 2022
2023
$23.8M
Census residential building permits — 2023
2024
$43.6M
Census residential building permits — 2024
2025
$46.6M
Census residential building permits — 2025
Oak Brook permit jurisdiction (DuPage and Cook counties)2021–2025

Composition & context

What makes up the total

Establishments by sector
ZIP Code 605232023
2025 authorized units by structure type

New privately owned housing authorized by permits; construction may not have started or finished. The Oak Brook permit office covers both DuPage and Cook county portions. Annual estimates include imputation where needed; reported-only values and reporting months are retained in the snapshot.

Zero values: Two-unit; Three- or four-unit; Five-plus-unit.

Oak Brook permit jurisdiction (DuPage and Cook counties)2025
Reading this page

ZIP Code 60523 and the Village of Oak Brook overlap substantially but are not coterminous. ZIP-based workplace totals must not be read as municipal totals.

Business applications are EIN applications in DuPage County; they are not confirmed business formations in Oak Brook.

New privately owned housing authorized by permits; construction may not have started or finished. The Oak Brook permit office covers both DuPage and Cook county portions. Annual estimates include imputation where needed; reported-only values and reporting months are retained in the snapshot.

Monthly tax values are IDOR sales-related warrant disbursements, dated by disbursement month. They are not taxable sales, total Village revenue or budget actuals. Interest is already included; separately published interest and fees are retained in downloads. December 2025 MT and NHMR receipts are published values recovered from IDOR's FY2026 annual workbook, which lacks separate monthly voucher, collection, interest and fee details. Missing tax-code rows remain unavailable. Tax policy changes can affect year-over-year comparisons.