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Housing in Embarrass

A typical Embarrass home is worth roughly $75,000

Typical home value
$75K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$970
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$914
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Embarrass?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Embarrass

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You could afford about
$280,000
Typical Embarrass home $75K

That covers a typical Embarrass home, with $205K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$520
Loan $370Tax $130Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $450 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, the Illinois typical property tax (2.01% 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

90% of Embarrass households own their home

Half of Embarrass’s homes were built before 1942.

Owners and renters
Own 90%Rent 10%

Illinois: 67% own.

1942
typical home built · IL 1971
$914
median property tax bill · IL $5,298

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 $970

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$690
1 bedroom$810
2 bedrooms$970
3 bedrooms$1,280
4 bedrooms$1,420
10%
of households rent · IL 33%
11
renter households

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

Next door

Embarrass vs. its neighbors

Embarrass is the least expensive of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Embarrass$75K*—$970$55,938
Buck—−2.7%†$920$80,000
East Oakland$104K*−15%†$920$52,188
Kansas$112K+3.2%$1,000$69,904
Sargent—−15%†$930$180,074

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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