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Housing in Windsor

A typical Windsor home is worth roughly $105,000

No new homes were permitted in 2025.

Typical home value
$105K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$920
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,764
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Windsor?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.7 years of income

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

You could afford about
$221,000
Typical Windsor home $105K

That covers a typical Windsor home, with $116K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$700
Loan $520Tax $150Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $920 a month here, $220 more than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Windsor’s typical property tax (1.67% 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 $920

Renters already here pay a median of $769, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$630
1 bedroom$760
2 bedrooms$920
3 bedrooms$1,110
4 bedrooms$1,390
19%
of households rent · IL 33%
64
renter households
$769
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Moultrie 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 Windsor in 2025. The last year with any was 2016 (2 new homes).

Single-family
012 20002005201520202025
0
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
2
homes in the past 10 years
Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2026 (Jan–Aug)000—
2025000—
2024000—
2023000—
2022000—
2021000—
2020000—
2019000—
2018000—
2017000—
2016220$200,000
2015000—
2014220$160,000
2013220$160,000
2007000—
2006000—
2005220$180,000
2004220$180,000
2003220$180,000
2002220$180,000
2001000—
2000000—

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

The homes

81% of Windsor households own their home

Half of Windsor’s homes were built before 1971.

Owners and renters
Own 81%Rent 19%

Illinois: 67% own.

1971
typical home built · IL 1971
$1,764
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
1.67%
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.

Next door

Windsor vs. its neighbors

The towns that share a border with Windsor. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentNew homes 2025Median income
Windsor$105K*—$9200$63,359
Richland$144K*—$1,030—$84,643

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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What Windsor buyers, sellers and renters are saying.

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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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