A typical Kirkwood home is worth about $112,000
Down 5.2% in a year, 62% below the Illinois typical home.
What kind of housing town is Kirkwood?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 1.6 years of income
Less than across Illinois (3.6 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Kirkwood home, with $130K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $960 a month here, $230 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Kirkwood’s typical property tax (1.56% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Up 6.7% in five years
Slower than Illinois (29.1%).
Show as a table
| January | Kirkwood | Illinois |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $90,000 | $181,000 |
| 2018 | $98,000 | $190,000 |
| 2019 | $96,000 | $195,000 |
| 2020 | $100,000 | $200,000 |
| 2021 | $106,000 | $215,000 |
| 2022 | $109,000 | $236,000 |
| 2023 | $108,000 | $248,000 |
| 2024 | $115,000 | $263,000 |
| 2025 | $112,000 | $278,000 |
| 2026 | $118,000 | $290,000 |
| August 2026 | $112,000 | $298,000 |
A typical Kirkwood home worth $90K in September 2016 is worth about $112K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
75% of Kirkwood households own their home
Half of Kirkwood’s homes were built before 1946.
Illinois: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
A two-bedroom rents for about $960
Renters already here pay a median of $938.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Henderson County, IL): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
No new homes permitted in 2025
No permits for new homes were issued in Kirkwood in 2025. The last year with any was 2023 (1 new home).
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Kirkwood's population fell by 36 even though 2 new homes were permitted. Homes are holding fewer people: households are getting smaller, or more homes are used part of the year.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $45,000 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $266,000 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $173,000 |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $60,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits 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.