A typical Seymour home is worth about $311,000
Up 10.4% in a year, close to the Illinois typical home.
Only 1 sale in May 2026: in a market this size, monthly medians swing a lot, so the typical value is the steadier guide.
What kind of housing town is Seymour?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
Up 36.4% in five years
Faster than Illinois (29.1%).
Show as a table
| January | Seymour | Illinois |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $186,000 | $181,000 |
| 2018 | $190,000 | $190,000 |
| 2019 | $191,000 | $195,000 |
| 2020 | $194,000 | $200,000 |
| 2021 | $213,000 | $215,000 |
| 2022 | $236,000 | $236,000 |
| 2023 | $245,000 | $248,000 |
| 2024 | $261,000 | $263,000 |
| 2025 | $277,000 | $278,000 |
| 2026 | $299,000 | $290,000 |
| August 2026 | $311,000 | $298,000 |
A typical Seymour home worth $186K in September 2016 is worth about $311K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
What it takes to buy in Seymour
Try your own numbers below.
That’s $31K short of a typical Seymour home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,210 a month here, $940 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Illinois typical property tax (2.01% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,210
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Champaign-Urbana, 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.
72% of Seymour households own their home
Half of Seymour’s homes were built before 1959.
Illinois: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Neighbors talk housing
What Seymour buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, May 2026. 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.