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The median home value in Fox Lake, IL is $259,313, up 4.95% 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
$259,313
Year-over-Year
+4.95%
Population
10,749
The typical home value increased by 0.9%, from $256,884 in May 2026 to $259,313 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 | $256,884 | +4.5% |
| Jun 2026 | $258,568 | +4.5% |
| Jul 2026 | $259,843 | +4.6% |
| Aug 2026 | $258,937 | +4.8% |
| Sep 2026 | $259,313 | +5.0% |
Fox Lake ranks #180 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 17.8% below the state's city median of $315,610. It sits in Lake County, where the county-wide median is $398,052.
Fox Lake police recorded a violent crime rate of 251 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,693 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 Fox Lake, that value is $259,313. That's up 4.95% from a year earlier. It is about 17.8% below the typical Illinois city tracked here.
Homes in Fox Lake are cheaper than Lake County as a whole, where the median is $398,052 — a difference of about 34.9%.
Fox Lake police reported 251 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 10,749. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.