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Housing in Barnhill

A typical Barnhill home is worth roughly $113,000

Typical home value
$113K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$930
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,709
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Barnhill?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 2.5 years of income

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

You could afford about
$165,000
Typical Barnhill home $113K

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

The typical home, each month
$730
Loan $560Tax $140Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $930 a month here, $200 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, Barnhill’s typical property tax (1.51% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

80% of Barnhill households own their home

Half of Barnhill’s homes were built before 2000.

Owners and renters
Own 80%Rent 20%

Illinois: 67% own.

2000
typical home built · IL 1971
$1,709
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
1.51%
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.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $930

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$630
1 bedroom$700
2 bedrooms$930
3 bedrooms$1,110
4 bedrooms$1,540
20%
of households rent · IL 33%
16
renter households

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

Next door

Barnhill vs. its neighbors

Barnhill is the priciest of 4 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Barnhill$113K*—$930$46,111
Mill Shoals$91K*—$940$48,977
Grover$98K*—$920$42,267
Big Mound$97K*—$940$34,943

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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