Median Home Price in Park Forest, IL

The median home value in Park Forest, IL is $159,644, up 5.39% 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

$159,644

Year-over-Year

+5.39%

Population

20,487

Home value history

The typical home value increased by 1.4%, from $157,487 in May 2026 to $159,644 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.

Park Forest, IL monthly home value history
Month	Typical home value	Year-over-year change
May 2026	$157,487	+3.6%
Jun 2026	$160,932	+4.5%
Jul 2026	$160,865	+4.8%
Aug 2026	$161,174	+5.0%
Sep 2026	$159,644	+5.4%

Park Forest ranks #230 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 49.4% below the state's city median of $315,610. It sits in Cook County, where the county-wide median is $340,258.

Crime in Park Forest

Park Forest police recorded a violent crime rate of 283 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,508 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 Park Forest

What is the average home price in Park Forest, 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 Park Forest, that value is $159,644. That's up 5.39% from a year earlier. It is about 49.4% below the typical Illinois city tracked here.

Is Park Forest expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in Park Forest are cheaper than Cook County as a whole, where the median is $340,258 — a difference of about 53.1%.

Is Park Forest a safe place to live?

Park Forest police reported 283 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 20,487. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.