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The median home value in Bellwood, IL is $259,715 as of 2026-07-31, up 5.58% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$259,715
Year-over-Year
+5.58%
Population
17,623
Bellwood ranks #182 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 18.6% below the state's city median of $319,026. It sits in Cook County, where the county-wide median is $344,339.
Median household income in Bellwood is $79,513, so the typical home value is about 3.3× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
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).
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 $259,715. That's up 5.58% from a year earlier. It is about 18.6% below the typical Illinois city tracked here.
Homes in Bellwood are cheaper than Cook County as a whole, where the median is $344,339 — a difference of about 24.6%.
Median household income here is $79,513, so the typical home value is about 3.3× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
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.
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