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Housing in Elizabeth

A typical Elizabeth home is worth roughly $136,000

Typical home value
$136K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,060
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$2,304
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Elizabeth?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 2.4 years of income

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

You could afford about
$196,000
Typical Elizabeth home $136K

That covers a typical Elizabeth home, with $60K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$900
Loan $670Tax $190Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,060 a month here, $160 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Elizabeth’s typical property tax (1.70% 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

69% of Elizabeth households own their home

Half of Elizabeth’s homes were built before 1948.

Owners and renters
Own 69%Rent 32%

Illinois: 67% own.

1948
typical home built · IL 1971
$2,304
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
1.70%
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 $1,060

Renters already here pay a median of $739, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$730
1 bedroom$880
2 bedrooms$1,060
3 bedrooms$1,410
4 bedrooms$1,420
32%
of households rent · IL 33%
129
renter households
$739
median rent paid today · Census

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

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Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.

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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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