Westmont · DuPage County · IL
Homes for sale in
Westmont.
- Active listings
- 21
- Median list
- $400K
- Avg time on market
- 12 days
- Sold · last year
- 232
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Active listings
21 homes on the market
About the community
Living in Westmont.
Westmont sits in central DuPage County, hemmed in by Oak Brook to the north, Clarendon Hills to the east, Darien to the south, and Downers Grove to the west, with Hinsdale and Willowbrook a short drive away. The village's BNSF Metra station puts Chicago Union Station about 19.4 miles east, roughly a 35-minute train ride, which is the single biggest reason most Loop commuters end up looking here. School boundaries are split: most kids north of 55th Street feed into Westmont CUSD 201 (a small PK-12 unit district headquartered in the village), the southern slice falls into Maercker District 60 for K-8, and high schoolers across most of the village attend Hinsdale Central or Hinsdale South under Hinsdale Township High School District 86. Housing stock leans toward modest postwar capes, ranches, and bungalows on small lots, with newer infill teardowns and townhomes filling in along Cass Avenue and the Route 83 corridor. The distinguishing local fact is that the unmarked blue-green glass building off the village's industrial spine is Ty Inc., the headquarters of Beanie Babies founder Ty Warner, who funded the 36-acre Ty Warner Park across the street.
At a glance
~24,400 residents
2020 Census population 24,429. Central DuPage value tier with a heavier mix of townhomes and rentals than its wealthier neighbors.
BNSF Metra
Westmont station, 19.4 miles from Chicago Union Station, with express service running roughly 35 minutes inbound during rush.
Two-district school setup
Westmont CUSD 201 runs PK-12 inside the village; Hinsdale Township HSD 86 (Hinsdale Central, Hinsdale South) also serves Westmont addresses.
Ty Inc. headquarters
The Beanie Babies maker is based in an unmarked glass building at 280 Chestnut, with the adjacent 36-acre Ty Warner Park funded by Ty Warner himself.
Route 83 corridor
Illinois Route 83 runs through the east side, with I-88, I-294, and I-355 all minutes away. Ogden Avenue (US 34) is the main east-west arterial.
Westmont Park District
22 parks across roughly 150 acres, including Ty Warner Park and Veterans Memorial Park as the flagship.
Independence Day fireworks
The village has co-hosted the July 4 fireworks at Ty Warner Park since 2000, considered one of the larger displays in the area.
UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale
DuPage County's only teaching hospital sits just over the Westmont boundary at 120 N Oak Street in Hinsdale.
What’s close
Westmont is organized in a tight grid south of Ogden Avenue, with the BNSF tracks slicing east-west through the middle and Cass Avenue running north-south as the main commercial spine.
- Downtown Westmont (Cass Avenue)
- The two-block walkable core around the train station, anchored by the Chamber of Commerce at One South Cass Avenue and local restaurants like Taurasi, Dolce, and Neat Kitchen + Bar.
- Westmont Metra Station (BNSF)
- Commuter rail hub at the center of the village, 19.4 miles to Chicago Union Station.
- Ty Warner Park
- 36-acre park funded by Ty Warner with sports fields, splash pad, and the village's main event lawn.
- Veterans Memorial Park
- Flagship park of the Westmont Park District in the center of town, with an award-winning playground.
- Route 83 corridor
- The eastern commercial edge of the village, where big-box retail and office space cluster around the IL-83 and Ogden Avenue interchange.
- UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale
- Just across the Westmont boundary at 120 N Oak Street in Hinsdale, DuPage County's only teaching hospital.
What it’s actually like to live here
Daily life in Westmont is built around the train and the grid. Loop commuters walk or drive a few minutes to the BNSF platform, grab dinner along Cass Avenue on the way home, and use Route 83 and I-88 for weekend errands toward Oak Brook, Downers Grove, or the Yorktown corridor. The downtown is small but real, with a Chamber-organized restaurant row, a summer cruise-night culture, and the Independence Day fireworks at Ty Warner Park that pull in residents from neighboring towns each July.
The village runs younger and more diverse than its wealthier neighbors, with a median age around 43 and a household mix that is roughly 56 percent families and 43 percent non-family households (singles, roommates, empty-nesters). You see that in the housing stock: ranches and bungalows priced for first-time buyers sit next to teardown new builds and townhomes, and renters are a real share of the population. Buyers looking at Westmont are usually weighing it against Downers Grove (bigger, busier downtown), Darien (no Metra), or Hinsdale (much higher prices), and they pick Westmont when the math on the BNSF plus Hinsdale 86 high schools wins.
Neighborhoods
Detailed Westmont community pages coming soon.
Browse the listings above. Detailed neighborhood pages with market stats, school info, and lifestyle take-downs land here as we roll them out.
Schools
Districts serving Westmont.
Boundary lines do shift. Always confirm in writing for a specific address before writing an offer.
- CUSD 201Grades Pre-K – 12
Westmont Community Unit School District 201
Schools serving the area
- Westmont High School
- Westmont Junior High School
- C.E. Miller Elementary
- Manning Elementary
- South Early Childhood Center
CUSD 201 is headquartered in Westmont and serves the majority of Westmont students living north of 55th Street, plus parts of Clarendon Hills and Downers Grove.
- D60Grades Pre-K – 8
Maercker School District 60
Schools serving the area
- Holmes Elementary
- Maercker Elementary
- Westview Hills Middle School
Maercker D60 serves Westmont grade school students living south of 55th Street, north of 67th Street, and east of Williams Street.
- D86Grades 9 – 12
Hinsdale Township High School District 86
Schools serving the area
- Hinsdale Central High School
- Hinsdale South High School
D86 high schools serve Westmont students who fall outside CUSD 201's high school attendance area, alongside students from Burr Ridge, Clarendon Hills, Darien, Hinsdale, Oak Brook, and Willowbrook.
From the neighborhood
Around Westmont
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What there is to do in Westmont.
A handful of the places people who live here actually use. Not a directory.
- Parks
Ty Warner Park
36-acre park with sports fields, playgrounds, and a splash pad, funded by Ty Warner himself.
- Parks
Veterans Memorial Park
Flagship Westmont Park District park in the center of town, with a large playground, lighted pathways, and a picnic shelter.
- Food & Drink
Taurasi Stile Italiano
Southern Italian restaurant in downtown Westmont known for housemade pasta and gluten-free and vegan options.
- Food & Drink
Neat Kitchen + Bar
New American restaurant and bar at 246 N Cass Avenue, open for lunch and dinner.
- Culture
Westmont Independence Day Celebration
Annual July 4 fireworks at Ty Warner Park, co-hosted by the village and park district since 2000.
- Family
Westmont Park District
22 parks plus a golf course and a health club operated by the local park district.
Getting around
Commute + transit from Westmont.
MetraBNSF line
- Stations: Westmont
- Terminal: Chicago Union Station
- Distance: 19.4 miles to downtown Chicago
DriveBy car
- Routes: IL 83 (Kingery Highway) · US 34 (Ogden Avenue) · Cass Avenue · I-88 (Reagan Memorial Tollway) · I-294 (Tri-State Tollway) · I-355 (Veterans Memorial Tollway)
- Chicago Loop: ~28 min
- O'Hare Airport: ~26 min
By the numbers
Westmont taxes + market stats.
Property tax rates vary by exact township and assessor district. Confirm per address before pricing a purchase.
Property tax rate
2.08%
effective avg
Sales tax
8.00%
combined
Median sold price
$419,500
MRED · last 12 mo (232 sales)
Median household income
$88,090
ACS
How Westmont got here
A bit of history.
The land that became Westmont was Potawatomi territory before the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad built its Aurora-to-Chicago branch line through the area, with the first train running in 1864. The original stop was a milk-loading platform called Gregg's Station, used to ship dairy and farm products into the city. The community took the name Westmont because the village sits on the highest point of elevation along the Burlington-Northern line west of Chicago. Plats were laid out in the early 1900s, and on November 4, 1921, residents voted 41 to 28 to incorporate, with Vince Pastor serving as the first village board president.
Postwar Westmont grew the way most BNSF-line suburbs did, with small-lot single-family neighborhoods filling in between the tracks and Ogden Avenue (the old Plank Road that connected the farmland to Chicago back in the 1840s). The Route 83 corridor along the east side of town added retail and office space in the late 20th century, and Ty Warner located his stuffed-toy empire here in the 1990s, eventually donating roughly $7 million toward the park that bears his name. Today Westmont keeps a working-and-middle-class feel that contrasts with its wealthier neighbors Hinsdale and Oak Brook, which is one reason it is often the first stop for buyers who want Hinsdale 86 high schools without Hinsdale's price tag.
The questions buyers actually ask
Westmont FAQ
The questions I get most from buyers shopping Westmont. If yours isn't here, text 224-385-8779, same-day reply.
- How are Westmont schools?
- Westmont's school picture is a two-district story. Inside the village, Westmont CUSD 201 runs a small PK-12 unit district with five schools, and Westmont High School has been designated as exemplary on the Illinois Report Card for two years running. South of 55th Street, K-8 students attend Maercker District 60 instead. For high school, most Westmont addresses outside the small CUSD 201 zone feed into Hinsdale Township District 86 (Central or South), which is one of the strongest high school districts in the western suburbs. Always confirm the exact attendance boundary for a specific address before writing an offer.
- What's the commute to Chicago like from Westmont?
- Westmont sits on the BNSF Line, which is Metra's busiest, and the Westmont station is 19.4 miles from Chicago Union Station. Express trains run roughly 35 minutes inbound during rush hour, which is one of the bigger draws for Loop commuters. By car, you are looking at about 22 miles and 28 minutes off-peak, but I-290 backs up hard in the morning, so almost everyone with a downtown job uses the train. O'Hare is about 18 miles and 26 minutes via I-294.
- Where should I look first in Westmont for a family home?
- The north side of the village, north of 55th Street, keeps your kids in Westmont CUSD 201 and gives you a shorter walk to the Metra. The area near Ty Warner Park and Westmont High School has more newer-construction and renovated homes. If Hinsdale Central is the priority, you want the section of the village that falls into the Central attendance boundary inside D86, which you should map address by address with the district. South of 55th puts you in Maercker D60 for K-8, which is a real district but a different feeder pattern.
- What are property taxes like in Westmont?
- Effective property tax in Westmont runs around 2.08 percent per Ownwell, which is high by national standards but actually moderate for DuPage County, where rates often run higher in towns with more school districts overlapping a single parcel. On the village's reported median home price near $279,000, that produces a typical tax bill in the $5,000 to $7,000 range, with bigger or newer homes well above that. Always pull the actual most-recent tax bill for the parcel you are considering, because rates vary by overlapping taxing district.
- What's distinctive about Westmont vs Hinsdale or Downers Grove?
- Westmont gives you BNSF access and (for most of the village) the same Hinsdale 86 high schools at a fraction of Hinsdale's prices. Hinsdale's median home value is multiples of Westmont's; Westmont's housing stock is smaller, older, and more diverse, with a real share of townhomes, ranches, and rentals mixed in with newer infill. Downers Grove next door has a bigger and busier downtown but its own school districts. The trade-off in Westmont is lot size and house size for the same train and (often) the same high school.
- Is Westmont actually where Beanie Babies come from?
- Yes. Ty Inc., the company Ty Warner built into a stuffed-toy empire on the back of Beanie Babies, is headquartered in an unmarked blue-green glass building at 280 Chestnut in Westmont. Warner has kept the company low-profile, the building has no Ty signage, and he donated roughly $7 million toward the creation of Ty Warner Park across the street, which is now the village's main event venue.
- What does the housing stock actually look like?
- Westmont's typical home is a postwar cape, ranch, or small two-story on a modest lot, often updated or renovated. There is a growing layer of teardown new construction and townhome infill along the Cass Avenue and Route 83 corridors. The current Zillow Home Value Index is about $348,000, which is well below Hinsdale or Oak Brook and consistent with a buyer looking for the smallest commute and best schools they can afford. Rentals and condos exist but the village is still predominantly owner-occupied single-family.
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