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The median home value in McHenry, IL is $318,613 as of 2026-07-31, up 5.16% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$318,613
Year-over-Year
+5.16%
Population
28,563
McHenry ranks #141 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 0.1% below the state's city median of $319,026. It sits in McHenry County, where the county-wide median is $372,372.
Median household income in McHenry is $86,315, so the typical home value is about 3.7× 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).
McHenry police recorded a violent crime rate of 94 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — lower than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 620 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 McHenry, that value is $318,613. That's up 5.16% from a year earlier. It is about 0.1% below the typical Illinois city tracked here.
Homes in McHenry are cheaper than McHenry County as a whole, where the median is $372,372 — a difference of about 14.4%.
Median household income here is $86,315, so the typical home value is about 3.7× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
McHenry police reported 94 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 28,563. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.