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Housing in Farmers

A typical Farmers home is worth roughly $129,000

Typical home value
$129K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$920
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$2,912
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Farmers?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Farmers

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$280,000
Typical Farmers home $129K

That covers a typical Farmers home, with $151K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$890
Loan $640Tax $220Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $920 a month here, $30 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

89% of Farmers households own their home

Half of Farmers’s homes were built before 1970.

Owners and renters
Own 89%Rent 11%

Illinois: 67% own.

1970
typical home built · IL 1971
$2,912
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 $920

Renters already here pay a median of $781, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$700
1 bedroom$710
2 bedrooms$920
3 bedrooms$1,270
4 bedrooms$1,290
11%
of households rent · IL 33%
15
renter households
$781
median rent paid today · Census

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

Farmers vs. its neighbors

The towns that share a border with Farmers. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Farmers$129K*—$920$60,833
Vermont$58K*—$920$52,031

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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What Farmers buyers, sellers and renters are saying.

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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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