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Housing in Kinderhook

A typical Kinderhook home is worth roughly $87,000

Typical home value
$87K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$920
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,282
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Kinderhook?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.4 years of income

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

You could afford about
$220,000
Typical Kinderhook home $87K

That covers a typical Kinderhook home, with $133K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$560
Loan $430Tax $110Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $920 a month here, $360 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, Kinderhook’s typical property tax (1.47% 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

85% of Kinderhook households own their home

Half of Kinderhook’s homes were built before 1954.

Owners and renters
Own 85%Rent 16%

Illinois: 67% own.

1954
typical home built · IL 1971
$1,282
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
1.47%
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 $920

Renters already here pay a median of $688, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$630
1 bedroom$700
2 bedrooms$920
3 bedrooms$1,140
4 bedrooms$1,360
16%
of households rent · IL 33%
42
renter households
$688
median rent paid today · Census

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

Kinderhook vs. its neighbors

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

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentNew homes 2025Median income
Kinderhook$87K*—$920—$61,020
Barry$91K+12.1%$920—$76,696
Payson$170K−0.3%$1,0100$62,041

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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