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The median home value in Wilmington, IL is $278,483 as of 2026-07-31, up 5.88% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$278,483
Year-over-Year
+5.88%
Population
5,542
Wilmington ranks #171 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 12.7% below the state's city median of $319,026. It sits in Will County, where the county-wide median is $379,299.
Wilmington police recorded a violent crime rate of 235 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 758 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 Wilmington, that value is $278,483. That's up 5.88% from a year earlier. It is about 12.7% below the typical Illinois city tracked here.
Homes in Wilmington are cheaper than Will County as a whole, where the median is $379,299 — a difference of about 26.6%.
Wilmington police reported 235 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 5,542. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.