A typical Carrollton home is worth roughly $108,000
Home prices around Carrollton have risen about 7.6% over the past 5 years. Builders were permitted 2 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Carrollton?
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A typical home costs 1.8 years of income
Less than across Illinois (3.6 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Carrollton home, with $104K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,090 a month here, $380 more than owning.
How Carrollton ranks on affordability →
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Carrollton’s typical property tax (1.65% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Home prices up 7.6% in 5 years
The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Carrollton rose 7.6% over the past 5 years, slower than across Illinois (47%). Last year prices fell 19%. Carrying the Census median home value forward with that index puts the typical Carrollton home at roughly $108,000 today.
Carrying the Census median forward with the index puts a typical home at about $108K.
How Carrollton ranks on rising home prices →
Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Carrollton, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,090
Renters already here pay a median of $779, 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 (Greene County, IL): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
2 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 2 new homes in Carrollton in 2025, all single-family houses. That's 0.8 per 1,000 residents, slower than across Illinois (1.6). Over the past 10 years, Carrollton has permitted 20 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Carrollton gained 1 resident while 70 new homes were permitted: about 0 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) | 2 | 2 | 0 | $683,000 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $683,000 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $321,000 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $180,000 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $791,000 |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $475,000 |
| 2019 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $511,000 |
| 2018 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $511,000 |
| 2017 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $511,000 |
| 2016 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $511,000 |
| 2015 | 28 | 28 | 0 | $2.9 million |
| 2014 | 26 | 26 | 0 | $2.7 million |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $190,000 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $190,000 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $190,000 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $190,000 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $190,000 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $120,000 |
| 2007 | 19 | 17 | 2 | $2 million |
| 2006 | 25 | 23 | 2 | $2.6 million |
| 2005 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $500,000 |
| 2004 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $945,000 |
| 2003 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $744,000 |
| 2002 | 4 | 1 | 3 | $220,000 |
| 2001 | 4 | 1 | 3 | $220,000 |
| 2000 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $361,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
69% of Carrollton households own their home
Half of Carrollton’s homes were built before 1959.
Illinois: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
On the market in Carrollton
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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. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. 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.