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Housing in Pilot

A typical Pilot home is worth roughly $182,000

Typical home value
$182K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,100
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$2,625
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Pilot?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.6 years of income

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

You could afford about
$420,000
Typical Pilot home $182K

That covers a typical Pilot home, with $238K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,170
Loan $900Tax $220Insurance $50

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,100 a month here, $70 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Pilot’s typical property tax (1.44% 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

97% of Pilot households own their home

Half of Pilot’s homes were built before 1971.

Owners and renters
Own 97%Rent 3%

Illinois: 67% own.

1971
typical home built · IL 1971
$2,625
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
1.44%
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 $1,100

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$770
1 bedroom$840
2 bedrooms$1,100
3 bedrooms$1,330
4 bedrooms$1,470
3%
of households rent · IL 33%
4
renter households

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

Next door

Pilot vs. its neighbors

Pilot is the 3rd priciest of 6 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Pilot$182K*—$1,100$116,250
Blount$198K*+5.1%†$1,060$110,451
Oakwood$171K+7.9%$1,140$57,188
Middlefork$128K*—$960$78,750
Ogden$230K+7.9%$1,220$97,083
Compromise$165K*—$980$96,328

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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