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Housing in Sherman

A typical Sherman home is worth roughly $79,000

Typical home value
$79K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$950
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,750
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Sherman?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.9 years of income

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

You could afford about
$135,000
Typical Sherman home $79K

That covers a typical Sherman home, with $56K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$560
Loan $390Tax $150Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $950 a month here, $390 more than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

How Sherman ranks on affordability →

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Sherman’s typical property tax (2.22% 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

85% of Sherman households own their home

Half of Sherman’s homes were built before 1938.

Owners and renters
Own 85%Rent 15%

Illinois: 67% own.

1938
typical home built · IL 1971
$1,750
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
2.22%
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 $950

Renters already here pay a median of $680, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$650
1 bedroom$720
2 bedrooms$950
3 bedrooms$1,320
4 bedrooms$1,590
15%
of households rent · IL 33%
28
renter households
$680
median rent paid today · Census

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

Next door

Sherman vs. its neighbors

Sherman is the least expensive of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Sherman$79K*—$950$40,714
Havana$94K+11.8%$930$58,125
Forest City$88K+8.1%$1,050$71,715

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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