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Housing in Newtown

A typical Newtown home is worth roughly $216,000

Typical home value
$216K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,000
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$3,423
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Newtown?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.8 years of income

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

You could afford about
$437,000
Typical Newtown home $216K

That covers a typical Newtown home, with $221K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,420
Loan $1,070Tax $290Insurance $60

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,000 a month here, $420 less 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, Newtown’s typical property tax (1.59% 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

96% of Newtown households own their home

Half of Newtown’s homes were built before 1972.

Owners and renters
Own 96%Rent 4%

Illinois: 67% own.

1972
typical home built · IL 1971
$3,423
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
1.59%
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 $1,000

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$700
1 bedroom$760
2 bedrooms$1,000
3 bedrooms$1,260
4 bedrooms$1,380
4%
of households rent · IL 33%
3
renter households

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

Newtown vs. its neighbors

Newtown is the priciest of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Newtown$216K*—$1,000$122,650
Amity$167K*—$990$87,768
Reading$87K*+18%†$970$54,259

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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