Median Home Price in Mount Zion, IL

The median home value in Mount Zion, IL is $198,919, up 4.4% 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

$198,919

Year-over-Year

+4.4%

Population

5,833

Home value history

The typical home value increased by 0.5%, from $197,851 in May 2026 to $198,919 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.

Mount Zion, IL monthly home value history
Month	Typical home value	Year-over-year change
May 2026	$197,851	+5.5%
Jun 2026	$202,075	+5.0%
Jul 2026	$201,926	+4.7%
Aug 2026	$199,922	+4.7%
Sep 2026	$198,919	+4.4%

Mount Zion ranks #208 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 37.0% below the state's city median of $315,610. It sits in Macon County, where the county-wide median is $124,658.

Crime in Mount Zion

Mount Zion police recorded a violent crime rate of 51 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — lower than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 514 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 Mount Zion

What is the average home price in Mount Zion, 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 Mount Zion, that value is $198,919. That's up 4.4% from a year earlier. It is about 37.0% below the typical Illinois city tracked here.

Is Mount Zion expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in Mount Zion are more expensive than Macon County as a whole, where the median is $124,658 — a difference of about 59.6%.

Is Mount Zion a safe place to live?

Mount Zion police reported 51 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 5,833. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.