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Housing in Dry Point

A typical Dry Point home is worth roughly $108,000

Typical home value
$108K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$940
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,373
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Dry Point?

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 Dry Point home $108K

That covers a typical Dry Point home, with $181K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$680
Loan $530Tax $110Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $940 a month here, $260 more than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Dry Point’s typical property tax (1.28% 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 $940

Renters already here pay a median of $720, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$680
1 bedroom$770
2 bedrooms$940
3 bedrooms$1,150
4 bedrooms$1,400
23%
of households rent · IL 33%
60
renter households
$720
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

77% of Dry Point households own their home

Half of Dry Point’s homes were built before 1978.

Owners and renters
Own 77%Rent 23%

Illinois: 67% own.

1978
typical home built · IL 1971
$1,373
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
1.28%
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.

Next door

Dry Point vs. its neighbors

Dry Point is the least expensive of 4 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Dry Point$108K*—$940$77,875
Lakewood$206K+8.6%$920$115,875
Loudon$186K*—$980$56,927
Herrick$189K+9.3%$920$64,643

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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