Median Home Price in Oak Lawn, IL

The median home value in Oak Lawn, IL is $298,866, up 6.11% 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

$298,866

Year-over-Year

+6.11%

Population

54,953

Home value history

The typical home value increased by 2.7%, from $291,068 in May 2026 to $298,866 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.

Oak Lawn, IL monthly home value history
Month	Typical home value	Year-over-year change
May 2026	$291,068	+6.3%
Jun 2026	$301,889	+6.3%
Jul 2026	$301,108	+6.1%
Aug 2026	$301,042	+6.1%
Sep 2026	$298,866	+6.1%

Oak Lawn ranks #153 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 5.3% below the state's city median of $315,610. It sits in Cook County, where the county-wide median is $340,258.

Crime in Oak Lawn

Oak Lawn police recorded a violent crime rate of 180 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,727 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 Oak Lawn

What is the average home price in Oak Lawn, 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 Oak Lawn, that value is $298,866. That's up 6.11% from a year earlier. It is about 5.3% below the typical Illinois city tracked here.

Is Oak Lawn expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in Oak Lawn are cheaper than Cook County as a whole, where the median is $340,258 — a difference of about 12.2%.

Is Oak Lawn a safe place to live?

Oak Lawn police reported 180 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 54,953. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.