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Housing in Pleasant Grove

A typical Pleasant Grove home is worth roughly $146,000

Typical home value
$146K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,190
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$2,289
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Pleasant Grove?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.9 years of income

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

You could afford about
$274,000
Typical Pleasant Grove home $146K

That covers a typical Pleasant Grove home, with $129K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$950
Loan $720Tax $190Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,190 a month here, $240 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Pleasant Grove’s typical property tax (1.57% 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

92% of Pleasant Grove households own their home

Half of Pleasant Grove’s homes were built before 1971.

Owners and renters
Own 92%Rent 9%

Illinois: 67% own.

1971
typical home built · IL 1971
$2,289
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
1.57%
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 $1,190

Renters already here pay a median of $1,046, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$820
1 bedroom$940
2 bedrooms$1,190
3 bedrooms$1,530
4 bedrooms$1,730
9%
of households rent · IL 33%
35
renter households
$1,046
median rent paid today · Census

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

Pleasant Grove vs. its neighbors

Pleasant Grove is the 2nd least expensive of 6 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentNew homes 2014Median income
Pleasant Grove$146K*—$1,190—$76,613
Hutton$149K*+0.6%†$1,010—$84,821
Cottonwood$114K*—$1,080—$115,462
Charleston$169K+5.2%$1,000—$51,741
Lafayette$219K*+5.9%†$970—$69,125
Paradise—+6.6%†$920—$42,298
Neoga$179K+6.9%$9900$88,667

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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