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Housing in Ridgway

A typical Ridgway home is worth roughly $75,000

Typical home value
$75K
IL $263K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$930
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,556
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Ridgway?

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 (3.2 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$154,000
Typical Ridgway home $75K

That covers a typical Ridgway home, with $79K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$520
Loan $370Tax $130Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $930 a month here, $410 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Ridgway’s typical property tax (2.07% 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 $930

Renters already here pay a median of $667, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$640
1 bedroom$710
2 bedrooms$930
3 bedrooms$1,120
4 bedrooms$1,330
20%
of households rent · IL 33%
70
renter households
$667
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

80% of Ridgway households own their home

Half of Ridgway’s homes were built before 1967.

Owners and renters
Own 80%Rent 20%

Illinois: 67% own.

1967
typical home built · IL 1971
$1,556
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
2.07%
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.

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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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