A typical Sparta home is worth roughly $108,000
What kind of housing town is Sparta?
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A typical home costs 1.6 years of income
Less than across Illinois (3.6 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Sparta home, with $132K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $960 a month here, $240 more than owning.
How Sparta ranks on affordability →
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Sparta’s typical property tax (1.75% 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 $960
Renters already here pay a median of $636, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Knox County, IL): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
78% of Sparta households own their home
Half of Sparta’s homes were built before 1963.
Illinois: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Sparta vs. its neighbors
Sparta is the least expensive of 4 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.
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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.