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Housing in Brocton

A typical Brocton home is worth roughly $81,000

No new homes were permitted in 2025.

Typical home value
$81K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$970
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$800
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Brocton?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Brocton

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You could afford about
$280,000
Typical Brocton home $81K

That covers a typical Brocton home, with $199K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$560
Loan $400Tax $140Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $410 more 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.

The homes

97% of Brocton households own their home

Half of Brocton’s homes were built before 1952.

Owners and renters
Own 97%Rent 3%

Illinois: 67% own.

1952
typical home built · IL 1971
$800
median property tax bill · IL $5,298

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 $970

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$690
1 bedroom$820
2 bedrooms$970
3 bedrooms$1,290
4 bedrooms$1,420
3%
of households rent · IL 33%
2
renter households

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

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2025

No permits for new homes were issued in Brocton in 2025 or in any year since 2000.

Single-family
01 200020052010201520202025
0
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
0
homes in the past 10 years
Homes vs. people, 2010–2020
Residents−49
New homes+0

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Brocton's population fell by 49 and no new homes were permitted.

Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
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2001000—
2000000—

Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

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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. 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.

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