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Housing in Pleasant Mound

A typical Pleasant Mound home is worth roughly $163,000

Typical home value
$163K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$980
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$2,200
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Pleasant Mound?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 3.5 years of income

About the same as across Illinois. Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$172,000
Typical Pleasant Mound home $163K

That covers a typical Pleasant Mound home, with $10K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,040
Loan $800Tax $180Insurance $50

A two-bedroom rents for about $980 a month here, $60 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Pleasant Mound’s typical property tax (1.35% 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

90% of Pleasant Mound households own their home

Half of Pleasant Mound’s homes were built before 1977.

Owners and renters
Own 90%Rent 10%

Illinois: 67% own.

1977
typical home built · IL 1971
$2,200
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
1.35%
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 $980

Renters already here pay a median of $863, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$700
1 bedroom$880
2 bedrooms$980
3 bedrooms$1,240
4 bedrooms$1,350
10%
of households rent · IL 33%
13
renter households
$863
median rent paid today · Census

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

Pleasant Mound vs. its neighbors

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

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentNew homes 2025Median income
Pleasant Mound$163K*—$980—$46,806
Mulberry Grove$168K+8.7%$1,060—$56,901
Central$142K*+6.3%†$990—$65,676
Seminary$194K*—$990—$39,617
Tamalco$114K*—$980—$48,500
Mulberry Grove$89K*—$1,0900$57,386

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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