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Housing in Dora

A typical Dora home is worth roughly $116,000

Typical home value
$116K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$960
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,693
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Dora?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.4 years of income

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

You could afford about
$289,000
Typical Dora home $116K

That covers a typical Dora home, with $173K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$750
Loan $570Tax $140Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $960 a month here, $210 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Dora’s typical property tax (1.46% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

77% of Dora households own their home

Half of Dora’s homes were built before 1955.

Owners and renters
Own 77%Rent 23%

Illinois: 67% own.

1955
typical home built · IL 1971
$1,693
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
1.46%
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.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $960

Renters already here pay a median of $900.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$770
1 bedroom$780
2 bedrooms$960
3 bedrooms$1,270
4 bedrooms$1,530
23%
of households rent · IL 33%
86
renter households
$900
median rent paid today · Census

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

Next door

Dora vs. its neighbors

Dora is the 2nd least expensive of 5 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Dora$116K*—$960$80,263
Mount Zion$200K+4.7%$980$102,500
Marrowbone$112K*—$970$47,917
Lovington$173K+6.6%$980$60,476
Cerro Gordo$147K−8.3%$1,050$86,193

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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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. 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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