Median Home Price in South Elgin, IL

The median home value in South Elgin, IL is $376,702, up 4.91% 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

$376,702

Year-over-Year

+4.91%

Population

24,420

Home value history

The typical home value was unchanged, from $376,606 in May 2026 to $376,702 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.

South Elgin, IL monthly home value history
Month	Typical home value	Year-over-year change
May 2026	$376,606	+3.6%
Jun 2026	$381,190	+4.2%
Jul 2026	$379,258	+4.6%
Aug 2026	$376,457	+4.8%
Sep 2026	$376,702	+4.9%

South Elgin ranks #91 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 19.4% above the state's city median of $315,610. It sits in Kane County, where the county-wide median is $383,834.

Crime in South Elgin

South Elgin police recorded a violent crime rate of 188 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 668 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 South Elgin

What is the average home price in South Elgin, 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 South Elgin, that value is $376,702. That's up 4.91% from a year earlier. It is about 19.4% above the typical Illinois city tracked here.

Is South Elgin expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in South Elgin are cheaper than Kane County as a whole, where the median is $383,834 — a difference of about 1.9%.

Is South Elgin a safe place to live?

South Elgin police reported 188 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 24,420. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.