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Housing in Patoka

A typical Patoka home is worth roughly $89,000

Typical home value
$89K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,090
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,405
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Patoka?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Patoka

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You could afford about
$280,000
Typical Patoka home $89K

That covers a typical Patoka home, with $191K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$620
Loan $440Tax $150Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,090 a month here, $470 more than owning.

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 $1,090

Renters already here pay a median of $831, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$800
1 bedroom$910
2 bedrooms$1,090
3 bedrooms$1,410
4 bedrooms$1,760
19%
of households rent · IL 33%
31
renter households
$831
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

81% of Patoka households own their home

Half of Patoka’s homes were built before 1968.

Owners and renters
Own 81%Rent 19%

Illinois: 67% own.

1968
typical home built · IL 1971
$1,405
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
4%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

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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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