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The median home value in East Alton, IL is $101,807, up 0.02% 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
$101,807
Year-over-Year
+0.02%
Population
5,596
The typical home value increased by 1.4%, from $100,398 in May 2026 to $101,807 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 | $100,398 | +0.6% |
| Jun 2026 | $100,150 | +2.4% |
| Jul 2026 | $99,495 | +2.4% |
| Aug 2026 | $100,421 | +1.3% |
| Sep 2026 | $101,807 | +0.0% |
East Alton ranks #277 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 67.7% below the state's city median of $315,610. It sits in Madison County, where the county-wide median is $197,597.
East Alton police recorded a violent crime rate of 447 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — higher than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 1,608 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 East Alton, that value is $101,807. That's up 0.02% from a year earlier. It is about 67.7% below the typical Illinois city tracked here.
Homes in East Alton are cheaper than Madison County as a whole, where the median is $197,597 — a difference of about 48.5%.
East Alton police reported 447 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 5,596. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.