A typical Bonfield home is worth about $324,000
Up 13.1% in a year, 9% above the Illinois typical home.
What kind of housing town is Bonfield?
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Up 38.2% in five years
Faster than Illinois (29.1%).
Show as a table
| January | Bonfield | Illinois |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $185,000 | $181,000 |
| 2018 | $189,000 | $190,000 |
| 2019 | $189,000 | $195,000 |
| 2020 | $202,000 | $200,000 |
| 2021 | $222,000 | $215,000 |
| 2022 | $237,000 | $236,000 |
| 2023 | $257,000 | $248,000 |
| 2024 | $270,000 | $263,000 |
| 2025 | $285,000 | $278,000 |
| 2026 | $309,000 | $290,000 |
| August 2026 | $324,000 | $298,000 |
A typical Bonfield home worth $186K in September 2016 is worth about $324K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
What it takes to buy in Bonfield
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That’s $44K short of a typical Bonfield home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,310 a month here, $930 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Illinois typical property tax (2.01% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,310
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Kankakee, IL MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
1 new home permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 1 new home in Bonfield in 2025. Over the past 10 years, Bonfield has permitted 1 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Bonfield's population fell by 31 and no new homes were permitted.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $415,000 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $240,000 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $160,000 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $132,000 |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $393,000 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $129,000 |
| 2001 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $384,000 |
| 2000 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $248,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
81% of Bonfield households own their home
Half of Bonfield’s homes were built before 1959.
Illinois: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
On the market in Bonfield
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What Bonfield buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits 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.