Rock Island, IL Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Rock Island produces a steady stream of closings but little consensus: sales over the last six months span a range wide enough that the median is a midpoint between different markets, not a going rate. The distribution below matters more than the headline.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 267
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $130,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $99
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $74,595 and $173,700

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 267 closed sales in Rock Island over the last six months, with a median closing price of $130,000. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $74,595 and $173,700. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings Resideline tracks and may differ from complete county or municipal records. 87% of the Rock Island closings we track here are single-family houses, so these figures primarily reflect that segment, and the citywide $/sqft figure primarily reflects that segment as well. Across the 261 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $63 and $132 per square foot.

Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Rock Island, IL (September 2026)

The median home price in Rock Island is $130,000, measured across the 267 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $74,595 and $173,700.

Where Rock Island sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Rock Island over the last six months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $74,595 and $173,700. Among the 91 Illinois markets with a published band, Rock Island's middle-half spread ($74,595 to $173,700) ranks 79th from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median. Measured as the ratio of the upper to the lower quartile, its middle-half spread ranks in the 88th percentile of the 2,187 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of September 4, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 19 days, across 168 Rock Island closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 31 days, across 155 Rock Island closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Rock Island angle

Sample size is workable while the band is not. 267 closings is a solid sample, but the distance from $74,595 to $173,700 is wider than most markets we track, so a citywide $130,000 carries little information about a specific address. That combination calls for discipline rather than volume. Choose comps on the attributes that move price most for the subject and accept a smaller set rather than reaching across the whole band to fill it out. The lower half of the band is the wider half here, so the loose end is the cheap end. A comp set that drifts downward without matching the subject will pull an estimate further off than the equivalent drift upward would. When a valuation lands between $74,595 and $130,000, verify that the comps behind it genuinely resemble the property rather than merely sharing a city.

From market read to offer price

A spread this wide means the citywide number cannot price a specific address; the step that matters is the property-level read. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.

And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale and graded against the real closing price after it sells. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Rock Island address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Rock Island, IL
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 1765078
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 267
Median sold price: $130,000
Median sold $/sqft: $99 (261 qualifying)
Property mix: 87% houses
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The local market statistics in this report are calculated from closed sales tracked by Resideline. Transaction coverage may differ from complete county or municipal records.

Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Rock Island over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Rock Island city limits are not limited to listing-service sales: they also include foreclosure deeds, estate and family transfers, and other off-market sales that portal medians exclude, which is why 24% of the 267 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $135,000.