A typical Camargo home is worth roughly $132,000
Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Camargo?
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What it takes to buy in Camargo
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That covers a typical Camargo home, with $148K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $920 a month here, $10 more than owning.
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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 $920
Renters already here pay a median of $537, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
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.
1 new home permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 1 new home in Camargo in 2025. Over the past 10 years, Camargo has permitted 7 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Camargo gained 7 residents while 10 new homes were permitted: about 0.7 new residents per new home. Building outpaced population growth, which usually means smaller households or homes used part of the year.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 1 | 1 | 0 | $300,000 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $600,000 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $564,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $400,000 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $435,000 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $226,000 |
| 2014 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $408,000 |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $310,000 |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $481,000 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2007 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $511,000 |
| 2006 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $260,000 |
| 2005 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $830,000 |
| 2004 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $864,000 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2002 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $579,000 |
| 2001 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $579,000 |
| 2000 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $579,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
80% of Camargo households own their home
Half of Camargo’s homes were built before 1972.
Illinois: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
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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.