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The median home value in Forest Park, IL is $294,595 as of 2026-07-31, up 6.53% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$294,595
Year-over-Year
+6.53%
Population
13,460
Forest Park ranks #161 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 7.7% below the state's city median of $319,026. It sits in Cook County, where the county-wide median is $344,339.
Median household income in Forest Park is $77,221, so the typical home value is about 3.8× 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).
Forest Park police recorded a violent crime rate of 416 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — higher than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 2,831 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 Forest Park, that value is $294,595. That's up 6.53% from a year earlier. It is about 7.7% below the typical Illinois city tracked here.
Homes in Forest Park are cheaper than Cook County as a whole, where the median is $344,339 — a difference of about 14.4%.
Median household income here is $77,221, so the typical home value is about 3.8× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Forest Park police reported 416 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 13,460. 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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