Wheaton · DuPage County · IL
Homes for sale in
Wheaton.
- Active listings
- 56
- Median list
- $565K
- Avg time on market
- 7 days
- Sold · last year
- 616
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Active listings
56 homes on the market
About the community
Living in Wheaton.
Wheaton is the seat of DuPage County, about 25 miles west of the Loop, with roughly 53,970 residents as of the 2020 Census. The Union Pacific West Metra line runs through town with two stops, one downtown at West Street and another at College Avenue serving Wheaton College, so buyers actually get a choice of walk-to-train neighborhoods. Schools are Community Unit School District 200, anchored by Wheaton Warrenville South and Wheaton North high schools, which is a big reason families plant here and stay. Wheaton College, the evangelical liberal arts school founded in 1860, sits just east of downtown and gives the city a college-town texture most DuPage suburbs do not have. Add in Cantigny Park, the old McCormick estate with formal gardens and the First Division Museum, plus a genuinely walkable Main Street, and Wheaton ends up being the rare suburb people pick on purpose rather than by commute math.
At a glance
~53,970 residents
2020 Census count for Wheaton, with a 2024 Census estimate of 53,741.
DuPage County seat
Wheaton has held the seat since the 1867 to 1871 county-seat fight and houses the DuPage County government complex at County Farm Road and Manchester Road.
Two UP-W Metra stops
Wheaton station downtown and College Avenue near Wheaton College, both on the Union Pacific West line into Ogilvie Transportation Center.
CUSD 200
Community Unit School District 200 covers Wheaton and Warrenville K-12 with Wheaton North and Wheaton Warrenville South as the two comprehensive high schools.
Wheaton College
Private evangelical liberal arts college founded in 1860, often called the 'Harvard of Evangelical Schools'.
Cantigny Park
The former 500-acre estate of Chicago Tribune publisher Col. Robert R. McCormick, now home to formal gardens, the First Division Museum, and a public golf course.
Illinois Prairie Path
One of the first rail-trails in the country, built on the old Chicago, Aurora & Elgin right-of-way that ran through Wheaton.
Walkable downtown + French Market
The Downtown Wheaton Association runs the seasonal French Market plus the Chili Cookoff, Vintage Rides, and A Dickens of a Christmas.
What’s close
Wheaton sits in central DuPage County, organized around a compact downtown on the UP-W tracks, with Wheaton College to the east, the county government complex to the west, and Cantigny Park to the south.
- Downtown Wheaton
- Restaurants, shops, the Wheaton Metra station, and Downtown Wheaton Association events all centered on Front Street and Hale Street.
- Wheaton Metra Station (UP-W)
- The West Street stop, two blocks from Main Street, the everyday commuter address.
- College Avenue Metra Station
- Second UP-W stop, serving Wheaton College and the east side of town.
- Wheaton College
- 80-acre campus just east of downtown, Blanchard Hall and the Billy Graham Center being the recognizable landmarks.
- Cantigny Park
- The McCormick estate at 1S151 Winfield Road, with formal gardens, museums, and 27 holes of golf.
- DuPage County Courthouse complex
- 505 N. County Farm Road, the judicial building that anchors the west side.
What it’s actually like to live here
Downtown Wheaton actually functions as a downtown rather than a strip. You can park once and walk to dinner, the library, the Metra, the French Market on a Saturday in season, and a coffee shop, which is unusual for a 50,000-person suburb. The Downtown Wheaton Association programs events year round, from the Chili Cookoff to Vintage Rides to A Dickens of a Christmas, and the Wheaton Public Library, repeatedly ranked among the top ten libraries nationally for its population class, sits one block off Main.
Outside the core, Wheaton reads as a mature, family-heavy suburb. The Danada and Town Square shopping districts off Butterfield Road handle day-to-day errands, and commuters split between the two Metra stations and I-355 east of town. Housing stock skews older, with a strong stock of mid-century ranches and split-levels plus pockets of newer infill, because Wheaton has been essentially landlocked since the 1990s. Most buyers here are picking Wheaton for CUSD 200 schools, the train, and the downtown, usually in that order.
Neighborhoods
Detailed Wheaton 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 Wheaton.
Boundary lines do shift. Always confirm in writing for a specific address before writing an offer.
- CUSD 200Grades Pre-K – 12
Community Unit School District 200 (Wheaton-Warrenville)
Schools serving the area
- Wheaton North High School
- Wheaton Warrenville South High School
- Edison Middle School
- Franklin Middle School
- Monroe Middle School
CUSD 200 covers most of Wheaton plus Warrenville. A few homes in the northeast corner of Wheaton fall into Glen Ellyn School District 41 instead, and Briar Glen Elementary in the southeast part of town is part of Community Consolidated School District 89 (Glen Ellyn-Glenbard area). Verify the exact attendance assignment on any specific address.
From the neighborhood
Around Wheaton
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What there is to do in Wheaton.
A handful of the places people who live here actually use. Not a directory.
- Parks
Cantigny Park
500-acre former McCormick estate with formal gardens, the First Division Museum, and 27 holes of public golf at 1S151 Winfield Road.
- Parks
Illinois Prairie Path
Origin point of one of the first rail-trails in the country, running through Wheaton on the old Chicago, Aurora & Elgin right-of-way.
- Family
Cosley Zoo
Small free-admission zoo with more than 200 animals, founded 1974 and operated by the Wheaton Park District.
- Shopping
Wheaton French Market
Open-air market downtown on Saturdays during the warm season, run by the Downtown Wheaton Association.
- Culture
Wheaton College / Blanchard Hall
The historic campus core east of downtown, evangelical liberal arts college founded 1860.
- Culture
DuPage County Historical Museum
Housed in the 1891 Adams Memorial Library building, free admission, operated by the Wheaton Park District.
Getting around
Commute + transit from Wheaton.
MetraUP-W line
- Stations: Wheaton, College Avenue
- Terminal: Chicago Ogilvie Transportation Center
- Distance: 25 miles to downtown Chicago
DriveBy car
- Routes: Roosevelt Road (IL-38) · Geneva Road · Butterfield Road (IL-56) · North Avenue (IL-64) · I-355 (Veterans Memorial Tollway) · I-88 (Reagan Memorial Tollway)
- Chicago Loop: ~45 min
- O'Hare Airport: ~35 min
By the numbers
Wheaton taxes + market stats.
Property tax rates vary by exact township and assessor district. Confirm per address before pricing a purchase.
Property tax rate
2.40%
effective avg
Sales tax
8.00%
combined
Median sold price
$471,000
MRED · last 12 mo (616 sales)
Median household income
$105,764
ACS
How Wheaton got here
A bit of history.
Wheaton traces its founding to the 1830s when Warren L. Wheaton laid claim to 640 acres in 1837, with his brother Jesse Wheaton taking another 300 acres just to the west. In 1848 the brothers gave the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad three miles of right-of-way through their land, and railroad officials named the new depot Wheaton in return. The community was platted in 1850, incorporated as a village in 1859 with Warren Wheaton as first president, and chartered as a city on April 24, 1890, when Judge Elbert Gary (son of pioneer Erastus Gary and later founder of Gary, Indiana) was elected first mayor.
Wheaton became the DuPage County seat the hard way. After losing an 1857 election to Naperville, Wheaton narrowly won the rematch in 1867, built a $20,000 courthouse, and then sent a band of Civil War veterans on the famous 1868 Midnight Raid to seize the county records Naperville refused to hand over. Records that escaped that raid were later destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and Wheaton was officially proclaimed county seat shortly after. The city's other claim to fame is its evangelical anchor, Wheaton College, whose most famous alumnus, Billy Graham, gave his name to the Billy Graham Center on campus. Wheaton was a dry town from 1887 until 1985, and Harold 'Red' Grange, the 'Galloping Ghost' of Illinois football, grew up here.
The questions buyers actually ask
Wheaton FAQ
The questions I get most from buyers shopping Wheaton. If yours isn't here, text 224-385-8779, same-day reply.
- How are Wheaton 200 schools, really?
- Strong and consistent. CUSD 200 (Wheaton North and Wheaton Warrenville South high schools, plus Edison, Franklin, Hubble, and Monroe middle schools) has been a top-tier DuPage district for decades, and the district's school board won a fifth consecutive IASB Governance Award in 2020. It is the main reason most buyers settle here.
- What is the commute into the city actually like from Wheaton?
- Wheaton has two UP-W Metra stops, downtown at West Street and College Avenue, with frequent trains to Ogilvie. Express service runs roughly an hour into the Loop, locals closer to 70 to 75 minutes. By car, expect 35 to 50 minutes to the Loop off-peak via I-290.
- Where in Wheaton should I look first for a family home?
- Walk-to-Metra blocks around the downtown station are the most coveted. Streets around Wheaton College and the College Avenue stop are quieter but still walkable. Northside (Northside Park, Wheaton North feeder area) and the Danada area on the south side both pull family buyers.
- What are property taxes like in Wheaton?
- High by national standards but normal by DuPage standards. Effective rates land in the 2.3 to 2.5 percent range of market value depending on parcel and overlapping districts. On a typical $500,000 home that is roughly $12,000 a year. Always pull the actual bill on a specific PIN before writing an offer.
- Wheaton vs Glen Ellyn, how do I choose?
- Both are UP-W, walkable downtowns, strong schools. Wheaton is bigger, has the county seat plus Wheaton College, and downtown has more retail and event programming. Glen Ellyn is smaller, more old-money quiet, and Lake Ellyn is a real differentiator. Schools are different districts (CUSD 200 vs District 41 and 87), so verify the specific boundary on any address.
- Does Wheaton College change how the city feels?
- Yes, in a quiet way. You get college-town texture, a more evangelical Christian flavor in some pockets, big foot traffic on game and graduation weekends, and amenities like the Armerding Center concerts that most suburbs do not have. It is not a party-college presence, the campus is dry and traditional.
- Is downtown Wheaton actually walkable, or is that marketing?
- It is genuinely walkable. Park once and you can hit dinner, the Metra, the library, the French Market, and shops on foot. That is rare for a 50,000-person DuPage suburb.
Nearby
Towns next to Wheaton.
If you’re cross-shopping the area, these are the places that border Wheaton.
Your local agent
Joe knows Wheaton
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