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Housing in Equality

A typical Equality home is worth roughly $83,000

Typical home value
$83K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$940
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$619
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Equality?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 2 years of income

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

You could afford about
$167,000
Typical Equality home $83K

That covers a typical Equality home, with $84K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$490
Loan $410Tax $50Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $940 a month here, $450 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Equality’s typical property tax (0.75% 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 $428, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$650
1 bedroom$720
2 bedrooms$940
3 bedrooms$1,200
4 bedrooms$1,300
21%
of households rent · IL 33%
31
renter households
$428
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Gallatin 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

79% of Equality households own their home

Half of Equality’s homes were built before 1959.

Owners and renters
Own 79%Rent 21%

Illinois: 67% own.

1959
typical home built · IL 1971
$619
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
0.75%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · IL 2.01%
4%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

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. 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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