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Housing in Sandoval

A typical Sandoval home is worth roughly $59,000

Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.

Typical home value
$59K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$990
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$661
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Sandoval?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.1 years of income

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

You could afford about
$200,000
Typical Sandoval home $59K

That covers a typical Sandoval home, with $141K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$360
Loan $290Tax $60Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $990 a month here, $630 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Sandoval’s typical property tax (1.12% 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 $990

Renters already here pay a median of $682, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$760
1 bedroom$800
2 bedrooms$990
3 bedrooms$1,270
4 bedrooms$1,530
27%
of households rent · IL 33%
76
renter households
57%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · IL 48%
22%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom
$682
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (St. Louis, MO-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.

New construction

1 new home permitted in 2025

Builders were permitted 1 new home in Sandoval in 2025. That's 1 per 1,000 residents, slower than across Illinois (1.6). Over the past 10 years, Sandoval has permitted 3 homes in all.

Single-family
0123 200020052010201520202025
1
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
1
per 1,000 residents · IL 1.6
3
homes in the past 10 years
Homes vs. people, 2010–2020
Residents−117
New homes+2

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Sandoval's population fell by 117 even though 2 new homes were permitted. Homes are holding fewer people: households are getting smaller, or more homes are used part of the year.

Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2026 (Jan–Aug)000—
2025110$150,000
2024000—
2023000—
2022000—
2021000—
2020000—
2019110$135,000
2018000—
2017110$300,000
2016000—
2015000$85,000
2014000—
2013000—
2012000—
2011000—
2010000—
2009000—
2008000—
2007000—
2006000—
2005000—
2004000—
2003000—
2002000—
2001330$143,000
2000330$143,000

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

The homes

73% of Sandoval households own their home

Half of Sandoval’s homes were built before 1977.

Owners and renters
Own 73%Rent 27%

Illinois: 67% own.

1977
typical home built · IL 1971
$661
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
1.12%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · IL 2.01%

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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