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The median home value in Palos Heights, IL is $405,365 as of 2026-07-31, up 4.85% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$405,365
Year-over-Year
+4.85%
Population
11,353
Palos Heights ranks #74 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 27.1% above 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 Palos Heights is $108,740, 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).
Palos Heights police recorded a violent crime rate of 62 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — lower than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 863 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 Palos Heights, that value is $405,365. That's up 4.85% from a year earlier. It is about 27.1% above the typical Illinois city tracked here.
Homes in Palos Heights are more expensive than Cook County as a whole, where the median is $344,339 — a difference of about 17.7%.
Median household income here is $108,740, so the typical home value is about 3.7× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Palos Heights police reported 62 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 11,353. 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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