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Housing in Nokomis

A typical Nokomis home is worth roughly $84,000

Typical home value
$84K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,030
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,377
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Nokomis?

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
$212,000
Typical Nokomis home $84K

That covers a typical Nokomis home, with $128K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$550
Loan $420Tax $110Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,030 a month here, $480 more than owning.

How Nokomis ranks on affordability →

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Nokomis’s typical property tax (1.64% 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

75% of Nokomis households own their home

Half of Nokomis’s homes were built before 1950.

Owners and renters
Own 75%Rent 25%

Illinois: 67% own.

1950
typical home built · IL 1971
$1,377
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
1.64%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · IL 2.01%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,030

Renters already here pay a median of $814, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$760
1 bedroom$790
2 bedrooms$1,030
3 bedrooms$1,240
4 bedrooms$1,420
25%
of households rent · IL 33%
183
renter households
60%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · IL 48%
20%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom
$814
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Christian County, IL): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

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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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