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The median home value in Downers Grove, IL is $502,828, up 5.96% 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
$502,828
Year-over-Year
+5.96%
Population
49,567
The typical home value decreased by 1.5%, from $510,398 in May 2026 to $502,828 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 | $510,398 | +6.5% |
| Jun 2026 | $514,191 | +6.2% |
| Jul 2026 | $513,663 | +6.0% |
| Aug 2026 | $509,231 | +6.0% |
| Sep 2026 | $502,828 | +6.0% |
Downers Grove ranks #35 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 59.3% above the state's city median of $315,610. It sits in DuPage County, where the county-wide median is $437,880.
Downers Grove police recorded a violent crime rate of 113 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 872 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 Downers Grove, that value is $502,828. That's up 5.96% from a year earlier. It is about 59.3% above the typical Illinois city tracked here.
Homes in Downers Grove are more expensive than DuPage County as a whole, where the median is $437,880 — a difference of about 14.8%.
Downers Grove police reported 113 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 49,567. 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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