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Housing in Tallula

A typical Tallula home is worth roughly $95,000

Typical home value
$95K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,110
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,621
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Tallula?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Tallula

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You could afford about
$280,000
Typical Tallula home $95K

That covers a typical Tallula home, with $185K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$650
Loan $470Tax $160Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,110 a month here, $460 more 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.

The homes

87% of Tallula households own their home

Half of Tallula’s homes were built before 1938.

Owners and renters
Own 87%Rent 13%

Illinois: 67% own.

1938
typical home built · IL 1971
$1,621
median property tax bill · IL $5,298

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 $1,110

Renters already here pay a median of $1,028.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$770
1 bedroom$890
2 bedrooms$1,110
3 bedrooms$1,490
4 bedrooms$1,550
13%
of households rent · IL 33%
16
renter households
$1,028
median rent paid today · Census

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

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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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