A typical Casey home is worth roughly $133,000
Home prices around Casey have risen about 66% over the past 5 years. Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Casey?
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A typical home costs 2.8 years of income
Less than across Illinois (3.6 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Casey home, with $26K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $30 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, Casey’s typical property tax (2.14% 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 $970
Renters already here pay a median of $713, 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 (Clark County, IL): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
Home prices up 66% in 5 years
The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Casey rose 66% over the past 5 years, faster than across Illinois (47%). Last year prices rose 5.3%. Carrying the Census median home value forward with that index puts the typical Casey home at roughly $133,000 today.
Carrying the Census median forward with the index puts a typical home at about $133K.
Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Casey, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.
1 new home permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 1 new home in Casey in 2025. That's 0.4 per 1,000 residents, slower than across Illinois (1.6). Over the past 9 years, Casey has permitted 9 homes in all.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 2 | 2 | 0 | $641,000 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $342,000 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $644,000 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $40,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
75% of Casey households own their home
Half of Casey’s homes were built before 1969.
Illinois: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
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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.