This five bedroom home, 1609 N President Street in Wheaton, has a property tax bill of nearly $9,440. | Zillow.com
This five bedroom home, 1609 N President Street in Wheaton, has a property tax bill of nearly $9,440. | Zillow.com
Property owners in Wheaton paid more than 2.2 percent of the value of their homes in taxes last year. That’s nearly two times the national average, according to an LGIS analysis of real estate sales data in DuPage County from Jan 1. to June 30.
Local Government Information Service (LGIS) publishes the DuPage Policy Journal.
Wheaton, population 53,389, recorded a median sale price of $334,000, based on data from the 324 properties sold during the first half of 2018. In 2017, homeowners paid a median property tax bill of $7,376, according county tax data from the DuPage County Assessment Office.
That’s 2.21 percent of the community’s median home value. In the U.S., the average effective property tax rate is 1.19 percent.
Put another way: a $334,000 home in Indiana, where the effective rate is 0.89 percent, would have a property tax bill of about $2,973, or more than $4,400 less per year.
The analysis, including 38 DuPage County communities with more than 5 sales since January, shows homeowners in Wayne and Glendale Heights, each clocking in with effective rates of 3 percent or higher.
Hanover Park, Bartlett, and Roselle all have rates higher than 2.75 percent.
Carol Stream, Bloomingdale, Bolingbrook, Medinah, and Aurora are 2.5 percent or higher — about average in Illinois but two times the national average. Illinois homeowners pay the second-highest property taxes in the country with an effective median rate of 2.32 percent, just behind those in New Jersey's (2.28 percent).
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DuPage County communities paying the highest effective property tax rates
The following table ranks DuPage County communities by their median effective property tax rate, calculated using sales and property tax data from 2018.
| City | Jan - June
2018 Sales | Jan - June 2018
Median Price | Median tax | Effective
tax rate |
| Wayne | 13 | $350,000 | $12,176 | 3.48% |
| Glendale Heights | 129 | $185,000 | $5,552 | 3.00% |
| Hanover Park | 67 | $185,000 | $5,336 | 2.88% |
| Bartlett | 152 | $268,000 | $7,681 | 2.87% |
| Roselle | 108 | $209,500 | $5,881 | 2.81% |
| Carol Stream | 187 | $235,000 | $6,232 | 2.65% |
| Bloomingdale | 99 | $261,000 | $6,638 | 2.54% |
| Bolingbrook | 5 | $261,000 | $6,619 | 2.54% |
| Medinah | 8 | $264,750 | $6,669 | 2.52% |
| Aurora | 323 | $228,000 | $5,696 | 2.50% |
| Woodridge | 135 | $266,500 | $6,627 | 2.49% |
| Oak Brook | 71 | $420,000 | $10,146 | 2.42% |
| Warrenville | 66 | $193,174 | $4,629 | 2.40% |
| Itasca | 40 | $259,500 | $6,207 | 2.39% |
| Winfield | 39 | $304,000 | $7,225 | 2.38% |
| Addison | 136 | $221,750 | $5,240 | 2.36% |
| Oakbrook Terrace | 7 | $200,000 | $4,719 | 2.36% |
| Lombard | 226 | $239,898 | $5,641 | 2.35% |
| Wood Dale | 68 | $210,000 | $4,864 | 2.32% |
| St. Charles | 7 | $212,500 | $4,903 | 2.31% |
| Glen Ellyn | 197 | $379,000 | $8,604 | 2.27% |
| Bensenville | 59 | $221,000 | $4,942 | 2.24% |
| West Chicago | 104 | $265,000 | $5,916 | 2.23% |
| Wheaton | 324 | $334,000 | $7,376 | 2.21% |
| Burr Ridge | 37 | $490,000 | $10,722 | 2.19% |
| Lisle | 129 | $322,500 | $7,031 | 2.18% |
| Naperville | 639 | $350,000 | $7,531 | 2.15% |
| Darien | 105 | $277,000 | $5,954 | 2.15% |
| Villa Park | 99 | $245,000 | $5,074 | 2.07% |
| Glenbard South | 17 | $350,000 | $7,126 | 2.04% |
| Dupage City | 28 | $117,750 | $2,327 | 1.98% |
| Clarendon Hills | 61 | $479,000 | $8,773 | 1.83% |
| Westmont | 125 | $270,000 | $4,916 | 1.82% |
| Elmhurst | 256 | $410,000 | $7,433 | 1.81% |
| Downers Grove | 324 | $332,000 | $5,886 | 1.77% |
| York Center | 38 | $158,250 | $2,617 | 1.65% |
| Willowbrook | 73 | $176,500 | $2,726 | 1.54% |
| Hinsdale | 112 | $902,500 | $13,455 | 1.49% |
DuPage County communities with the highest median home price
The following table ranks DuPage County communities by their median sale price, which is calculated using prices of properties sold during the first six months of 2018.
| City | Jan - June 2017 Sales | Jan - June 2017 Median Price | Jan - June 2018 Sales | Jan - June 2018 Median Price | Change |
| Hanover Park | 133 | $153,450 | 67 | $185,000 | 20.56% |
| Westmont | 185 | $225,000 | 125 | $270,000 | 20.00% |
| West Chicago | 176 | $224,900 | 104 | $265,000 | 17.83% |
| Clarendon Hills | 101 | $415,000 | 61 | $479,000 | 15.42% |
| Villa Park | 162 | $215,550 | 99 | $245,000 | 13.66% |
| Lisle | 207 | $288,000 | 129 | $322,500 | 11.98% |
| Willowbrook | 136 | $158,750 | 73 | $176,500 | 11.18% |
| Hinsdale | 189 | $815,000 | 112 | $902,500 | 10.74% |
| Glendale Heights | 207 | $170,000 | 129 | $185,000 | 8.82% |
| York Center | 54 | $146,485 | 38 | $158,250 | 8.03% |
| Elmhurst | 427 | $380,000 | 256 | $410,000 | 7.89% |
| Carol Stream | 279 | $218,500 | 187 | $235,000 | 7.55% |
| Wheaton | 446 | $312,400 | 324 | $334,000 | 6.91% |
| Glen Ellyn | 317 | $355,000 | 197 | $379,000 | 6.76% |
| Naperville | 934 | $329,000 | 639 | $350,000 | 6.38% |
| Aurora | 477 | $217,000 | 323 | $228,000 | 5.07% |
| Bensenville | 98 | $211,000 | 59 | $221,000 | 4.74% |
| Addison | 199 | $212,000 | 136 | $221,750 | 4.60% |
| Darien | 191 | $266,000 | 105 | $277,000 | 4.14% |
| Winfield | 77 | $292,000 | 39 | $304,000 | 4.11% |
| Wood Dale | 108 | $203,500 | 68 | $210,000 | 3.19% |
| Lombard | 405 | $234,000 | 226 | $239,898 | 2.52% |
| St. Charles | 11 | $207,500 | 7 | $212,500 | 2.41% |
| Bloomingdale | 207 | $255,000 | 99 | $261,000 | 2.35% |
| Downers Grove | 518 | $325,000 | 324 | $332,000 | 2.15% |
| Bartlett | 193 | $263,000 | 152 | $268,000 | 1.90% |
| Warrenville | 159 | $190,000 | 66 | $193,174 | 1.67% |
| Bolingbrook | 7 | $257,500 | 5 | $261,000 | 1.36% |
| Woodridge | 197 | $272,000 | 135 | $266,500 | -2.02% |
| Itasca | 77 | $265,000 | 40 | $259,500 | -2.08% |
| Glenbard South | 29 | $362,000 | 17 | $350,000 | -3.31% |
| Dupage City | 45 | $127,000 | 28 | $117,750 | -7.28% |
| Burr Ridge | 56 | $530,625 | 37 | $490,000 | -7.66% |
| Roselle | 170 | $233,500 | 108 | $209,500 | -10.28% |
| Wayne | 17 | $405,000 | 13 | $350,000 | -13.58% |
| Oakbrook Terrace | 18 | $237,000 | 7 | $200,000 | -15.61% |
| Oak Brook | 89 | $579,000 | 71 | $420,000 | -27.46% |
| Medinah | 13 | $432,000 | 8 | $264,750 | -38.72% |
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