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The median home value in Chester, IL is $114,674 as of 2026-07-31, down 0.09% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$114,674
Year-over-Year
-0.09%
Population
6,706
Chester ranks #268 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 64.1% below the state's city median of $319,026. It sits in Randolph County, where the county-wide median is $157,464.
Median household income in Chester is $80,625, so the typical home value is about 1.4× 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).
Chester police recorded a violent crime rate of 45 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — lower than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 268 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 Chester, that value is $114,674. That's down 0.09% from a year earlier. It is about 64.1% below the typical Illinois city tracked here.
Homes in Chester are cheaper than Randolph County as a whole, where the median is $157,464 — a difference of about 27.2%.
Median household income here is $80,625, so the typical home value is about 1.4× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Chester police reported 45 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 6,706. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.