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The median home value in Charleston, IL is $165,733, up 5.14% from a year earlier.
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
$165,733
Year-over-Year
+5.14%
Population
16,957
The typical home value decreased by 1.4%, from $168,057 in May 2026 to $165,733 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.
| Month | Typical home value | Year-over-year change |
|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | $168,057 | +8.6% |
| Jun 2026 | $164,471 | +6.9% |
| Jul 2026 | $169,785 | +5.7% |
| Aug 2026 | $169,446 | +5.2% |
| Sep 2026 | $165,733 | +5.1% |
Charleston ranks #228 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 47.5% below the state's city median of $315,610. It sits in Coles County, where the county-wide median is $145,077.
Median household income in Charleston is $49,300, so the typical home value is about 3.4× 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).
Charleston police recorded a violent crime rate of 360 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,793 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 Charleston, that value is $165,733. That's up 5.14% from a year earlier. It is about 47.5% below the typical Illinois city tracked here.
Homes in Charleston are more expensive than Coles County as a whole, where the median is $145,077 — a difference of about 14.2%.
Median household income here is $49,300, so the typical home value is about 3.4× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Charleston police reported 360 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 16,957. 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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