A typical Cameron home is worth about $184,000
Up 6.6% in a year, 38% below the Illinois typical home.
What kind of housing town is Cameron?
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What it takes to buy in Cameron
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That covers a typical Cameron home, with $96K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $920 a month here, $350 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.
Home values since 2022
Typical home value by month.
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| January | Cameron | Illinois |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $152,000 | $248,000 |
| 2024 | $164,000 | $263,000 |
| 2025 | $165,000 | $278,000 |
| 2026 | $185,000 | $290,000 |
| August 2026 | $184,000 | $298,000 |
A typical Cameron home worth $153K in February 2022 is worth about $184K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
68% of Cameron households own their home
Half of Cameron’s homes were built before 1938.
Illinois: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
A two-bedroom rents for about $920
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Knox County, IL): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
Neighbors talk housing
What Cameron buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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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. 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.