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Housing in Keith

A typical Keith home is worth roughly $86,000

Typical home value
$86K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$920
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,268
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Keith?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Keith

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You could afford about
$280,000
Typical Keith home $86K

That covers a typical Keith home, with $194K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$590
Loan $420Tax $140Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $920 a month here, $330 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.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $920

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$630
1 bedroom$700
2 bedrooms$920
3 bedrooms$1,130
4 bedrooms$1,440
20%
of households rent · IL 33%
27
renter households

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

80% of Keith households own their home

Half of Keith’s homes were built before 1994.

Owners and renters
Own 80%Rent 20%

Illinois: 67% own.

1994
typical home built · IL 1971
$1,268
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.

Next door

Keith vs. its neighbors

Keith is the 2nd least expensive of 4 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Keith$86K*—$920$66,277
Indian Prairie$159K*—$930$54,663
Harter$82K*+4.5%†$950$53,000
Bedford$97K*—$940$59,779

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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