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Housing in Crossville

A typical Crossville home is worth roughly $65,000

No new homes were permitted in 2025.

Typical home value
$65K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$920
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$878
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Crossville?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.6 years of income

Less than across Illinois (3.6 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$150,000
Typical Crossville home $65K

That covers a typical Crossville home, with $85K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$410
Loan $320Tax $70Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $920 a month here, $510 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Crossville’s typical property tax (1.36% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $920

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$630
1 bedroom$700
2 bedrooms$920
3 bedrooms$1,210
4 bedrooms$1,440
38%
of households rent · IL 33%
83
renter households

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

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2025

No permits for new homes were issued in Crossville in 2025 or in any year since 2000.

Single-family
01 200020052010201520202025
0
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
0
homes in the past 10 years
Homes vs. people, 2010–2020
Residents−122
New homes+0

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Crossville's population fell by 122 and no new homes were permitted.

Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2026 (Jan–Aug)000—
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2001000—
2000000—

Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

The homes

62% of Crossville households own their home

Half of Crossville’s homes were built before 1957.

Owners and renters
Own 62%Rent 38%

Illinois: 67% own.

1957
typical home built · IL 1971
$878
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
1.36%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · IL 2.01%

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.

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