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Median Home Price in Elmwood Park, IL

The median home value in Elmwood Park, IL is $356,576, up 6.61% from a year earlier.

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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

$356,576

Year-over-Year

+6.61%

Population

23,028

Home value history

The typical home value increased by 1.6%, from $351,110 in May 2026 to $356,576 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.

Elmwood Park, IL monthly home value history
Month	Typical home value	Year-over-year change
May 2026	$351,110	+3.8%
Jun 2026	$362,829	+4.5%
Jul 2026	$360,118	+5.1%
Aug 2026	$359,481	+6.0%
Sep 2026	$356,576	+6.6%

Elmwood Park ranks #104 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 13.0% above the state's city median of $315,610. It sits in Cook County, where the county-wide median is $340,258.

Crime in Elmwood Park

Elmwood Park police recorded a violent crime rate of 169 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,107 per 100,000.

Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).

Common questions about Elmwood Park

What is the average home price in Elmwood Park, IL?

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 Elmwood Park, that value is $356,576. That's up 6.61% from a year earlier. It is about 13.0% above the typical Illinois city tracked here.

Is Elmwood Park expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in Elmwood Park are more expensive than Cook County as a whole, where the median is $340,258 — a difference of about 4.8%.

Is Elmwood Park a safe place to live?

Elmwood Park police reported 169 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 23,028. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.