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Median Home Price in Pontoon Beach, IL

The median home value in Pontoon Beach, IL is $191,632, up 5.0% 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

$191,632

Year-over-Year

+5.0%

Population

5,786

Home value history

The typical home value decreased by 0.8%, from $193,102 in May 2026 to $191,632 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.

Pontoon Beach, IL monthly home value history
Month	Typical home value	Year-over-year change
May 2026	$193,102	+5.8%
Jun 2026	$195,722	+5.9%
Jul 2026	$194,115	+5.5%
Aug 2026	$194,642	+5.3%
Sep 2026	$191,632	+5.0%

Pontoon Beach ranks #213 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 39.3% below the state's city median of $315,610. It sits in Madison County, where the county-wide median is $197,597.

Crime in Pontoon Beach

Pontoon Beach police recorded a violent crime rate of 259 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,694 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 Pontoon Beach

What is the average home price in Pontoon Beach, 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 Pontoon Beach, that value is $191,632. That's up 5.0% from a year earlier. It is about 39.3% below the typical Illinois city tracked here.

Is Pontoon Beach expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in Pontoon Beach are cheaper than Madison County as a whole, where the median is $197,597 — a difference of about 3.0%.

Is Pontoon Beach a safe place to live?

Pontoon Beach police reported 259 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 5,786. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.