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Housing in Valier

A typical Valier home is worth roughly $80,000

No new homes were permitted in 2025.

Typical home value
$80K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$960
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$762
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Valier?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 2.9 years of income

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

You could afford about
$104,000
Typical Valier home $80K

That covers a typical Valier home, with $24K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$480
Loan $400Tax $60Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $960 a month here, $480 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Valier’s typical property tax (0.95% 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

80% of Valier households own their home

Half of Valier’s homes were built before 1947.

Owners and renters
Own 80%Rent 20%

Illinois: 67% own.

1947
typical home built · IL 1971
$762
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
0.95%
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 $960

Renters already here pay a median of $1,144.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$660
1 bedroom$730
2 bedrooms$960
3 bedrooms$1,250
4 bedrooms$1,400
20%
of households rent · IL 33%
27
renter households
$1,144
median rent paid today · Census

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

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2025

No permits for new homes were issued in Valier in 2025. The last year with any was 2010 (1 new home).

Single-family
012345 200020052010201520202025
0
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
0
homes in the past 10 years
Homes vs. people, 2010–2020
Residents−115
New homes+1

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Valier's population fell by 115 even though 1 new home was permitted. Homes are holding fewer people: households are getting smaller, or more homes are used part of the year.

Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2026 (Jan–Aug)000—
2025000—
2024000—
2023000—
2022000—
2021000—
2020000—
2019000—
2018000—
2017000—
2016000—
2015000—
2014000—
2013000—
2012000—
2011000—
2010110$30,000
2009000—
2008220$118,000
2007000—
2006110$85,000
2005550$216,000
2004220$80,000
2003000—
2002000—
2001110$50,000
2000000—

Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits 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. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits 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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