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Housing in Bureau Junction

A typical Bureau Junction home is worth roughly $55,000

Typical home value
$55K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$970
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,308
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Bureau Junction?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Bureau Junction

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You could afford about
$280,000
Typical Bureau Junction home $55K

That covers a typical Bureau Junction home, with $225K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$380
Loan $270Tax $90Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $590 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

63% of Bureau Junction households own their home

Half of Bureau Junction’s homes were built before 1952.

Owners and renters
Own 63%Rent 38%

Illinois: 67% own.

1952
typical home built · IL 1971
$1,308
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

Renters already here pay a median of $1,714.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$670
1 bedroom$740
2 bedrooms$970
3 bedrooms$1,200
4 bedrooms$1,340
38%
of households rent · IL 33%
34
renter households
$1,714
median rent paid today · Census

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