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Housing in Witt

A typical Witt home is worth roughly $51,000

Typical home value
$51K
IL $298K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$920
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,074
IL $5,298

What kind of housing town is Witt?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1 years of income

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

You could afford about
$176,000
Typical Witt home $51K

That covers a typical Witt home, with $126K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$360
Loan $250Tax $90Insurance $10

A two-bedroom rents for about $920 a month here, $560 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Witt’s typical property tax (2.12% 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

76% of Witt households own their home

Half of Witt’s homes were built before 1953.

Owners and renters
Own 76%Rent 24%

Illinois: 67% own.

1953
typical home built · IL 1971
$1,074
median property tax bill · IL $5,298
2.12%
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 $920

Renters already here pay a median of $578, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$680
1 bedroom$700
2 bedrooms$920
3 bedrooms$1,100
4 bedrooms$1,260
24%
of households rent · IL 33%
76
renter households
$578
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Montgomery County, IL): 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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