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Housing in Rushville

A typical Rushville home is worth roughly $95,000

No new homes were permitted in 2025.

Typical home value
$95K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$920
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,831
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Rushville?

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
$197,000
Typical Rushville home $95K

That covers a typical Rushville home, with $103K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$650
Loan $470Tax $150Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $920 a month here, $270 more than owning.

How Rushville ranks on affordability →

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Rushville’s typical property tax (1.93% 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 $920

Renters already here pay a median of $781, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$630
1 bedroom$840
2 bedrooms$920
3 bedrooms$1,100
4 bedrooms$1,320
32%
of households rent · IL 33%
401
renter households
22%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · IL 48%
19%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom
$781
median rent paid today · Census

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

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2025

No permits for new homes were issued in Rushville in 2025 or in any year since 2013.

Single-family
01 2013201520202025
0
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
0
homes in the past 10 years
Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2026 (Jan–Aug)000—
2025000—
2024000—
2023000—
2022000—
2021000—
2020000—
2019000—
2018000—
2017000—
2016000—
2015000—
2014000—
2013000—

Rushville's permit office didn't report to the Census in 2025, so the 2025 figures are Census estimates.

How Rushville ranks on new homes being built →

Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

The homes

69% of Rushville households own their home

Half of Rushville’s homes were built before 1967.

Owners and renters
Own 69%Rent 32%

Illinois: 67% own.

1967
typical home built · IL 1971
$1,831
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
1.93%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · IL 2.01%
1%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.

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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. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits 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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