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Housing in Aetna

A typical Aetna home is worth roughly $140,000

Typical home value
$140K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$970
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$2,433
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Aetna?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 2.6 years of income

Less than across Illinois (3.6 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$192,000
Typical Aetna home $140K

That covers a typical Aetna home, with $52K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$940
Loan $690Tax $200Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $30 more than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Aetna’s typical property tax (1.74% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $970

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$670
1 bedroom$760
2 bedrooms$970
3 bedrooms$1,190
4 bedrooms$1,410
12%
of households rent · IL 33%
23
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (De Witt County, IL): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

The homes

88% of Aetna households own their home

Half of Aetna’s homes were built before 1958.

Owners and renters
Own 88%Rent 12%

Illinois: 67% own.

1958
typical home built · IL 1971
$2,433
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
1.74%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · IL 2.01%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Next door

Aetna vs. its neighbors

Aetna is the 2nd priciest of 4 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Aetna$140K*—$970$54,716
Tunbridge$124K*—$980$80,625
Laenna$135K*—$980$74,531
Chester$185K*+7%†$990$98,636

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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