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Housing in Sumpter

A typical Sumpter home is worth roughly $116,000

Typical home value
$116K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$960
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$2,090
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Sumpter?

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
$246,000
Typical Sumpter home $116K

That covers a typical Sumpter home, with $130K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$780
Loan $570Tax $170Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $960 a month here, $180 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Sumpter’s typical property tax (1.80% 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 $960

Renters already here pay a median of $909.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$670
1 bedroom$760
2 bedrooms$960
3 bedrooms$1,150
4 bedrooms$1,620
23%
of households rent · IL 33%
142
renter households
42%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · IL 48%
16%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom
$909
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

77% of Sumpter households own their home

Half of Sumpter’s homes were built before 1967.

Owners and renters
Own 77%Rent 23%

Illinois: 67% own.

1967
typical home built · IL 1971
$2,090
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
1.80%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · IL 2.01%

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

Next door

Sumpter vs. its neighbors

Sumpter is the 3rd least expensive of 6 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentNew homes 2014Median income
Sumpter$116K*—$960—$70,556
Greenup$147K+4.5%$920—$57,713
Cottonwood$114K*—$1,080—$115,462
Woodbury$89K*—$940—$71,806
Neoga$179K+6.9%$9900$88,667
Spring Point$207K*—$940—$90,430

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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