Dupage Policy Journal

Property owners in Glendale Heights paid 3 percent of the value of their homes in taxes last year. That’s nearly 3 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.

Glendale Heights, population 34,145 recorded a median sale price of $185,000, based on data from the 129 properties sold during the first half of 2018. In 2017, homeowners paid a median property tax bill of $5,552, according county tax data from the DuPage County Assessment Office.

That’s 3 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 $185,000 home in Indiana, where the effective rate is 0.89 percent, would have a property tax bill of about $1,600, or more than $3,900 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 in the 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 tax with an effective median rate of 2.32 percent, just behind those in New Jersey (2.28 percent).

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%

Source: Blockshopper.com; DuPage County Assessment Office

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%

Source: Blockshopper.com; DuPage County Recorder