Median Home Price in Bellwood, IL

The median home value in Bellwood, IL is $257,763, up 6.19% from a year earlier.

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City housing-data period: September 2026. City source retrieval/check time (UTC) is recorded in the feed's updated field when available, not in the housing-data period.

Checked daily for new monthly Zillow releases, not new daily prices. Income and crime data are updated separately, not by the daily housing-data check. Unavailable means observation dates are missing or invalid.

Median Home Value

$257,763

Year-over-Year

+6.19%

Population

17,623

Home value history

The typical home value increased by 0.8%, from $255,626 in May 2026 to $257,763 in Sep 2026.

Monthly Zillow Home Value Index snapshots retained by HomePriceMap. A short history is shown now and grows automatically as each new monthly release arrives.

Bellwood, IL monthly home value history
Month	Typical home value	Year-over-year change
May 2026	$255,626	+4.2%
Jun 2026	$259,823	+5.1%
Jul 2026	$259,715	+5.6%
Aug 2026	$261,026	+6.0%
Sep 2026	$257,763	+6.2%

Bellwood ranks #182 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 18.3% below the state's city median of $315,610. It sits in Cook County, where the county-wide median is $340,258.

Crime in Bellwood

Bellwood police recorded a violent crime rate of 306 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,197 per 100,000.

Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).

Common questions about Bellwood

What is the average home price in Bellwood, IL?

People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Bellwood, that value is $257,763. That's up 6.19% from a year earlier. It is about 18.3% below the typical Illinois city tracked here.

Is Bellwood expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in Bellwood are cheaper than Cook County as a whole, where the median is $340,258 — a difference of about 24.2%.

Is Bellwood a safe place to live?

Bellwood police reported 306 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 17,623. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.