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The median home value in Wood River, IL is $135,532 as of 2026-07-31, up 3.93% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$135,532
Year-over-Year
+3.93%
Population
10,216
Wood River ranks #253 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 57.5% below the state's city median of $319,026. It sits in Madison County, where the county-wide median is $200,352.
Median household income in Wood River is $62,703, so the typical home value is about 2.2× 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).
Wood River police recorded a violent crime rate of 274 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,713 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 Wood River, that value is $135,532. That's up 3.93% from a year earlier. It is about 57.5% below the typical Illinois city tracked here.
Homes in Wood River are cheaper than Madison County as a whole, where the median is $200,352 — a difference of about 32.4%.
Median household income here is $62,703, so the typical home value is about 2.2× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Wood River police reported 274 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 10,216. 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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