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Housing in Rockford

A typical Rockford home is worth roughly $250,000

Typical home value
$250K
IN $260K
Estimate
Median tax bill
$1,385
IN $1,614

What kind of housing town is Rockford?

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

★ What stands out · The homes

100% of Rockford households own their home

Half of Rockford’s homes were built before 1972.

Owners and renters
Own 100%

Indiana: 71% own.

1972
typical home built · IN 1976
$1,385
median property tax bill · IN $1,614
0.55%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · IN 0.74%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Affordability

A typical home costs 2.2 years of income

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

You could afford about
$474,000
Typical Rockford home $250K

That covers a typical Rockford home, with $224K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,430
Loan $1,240Tax $120Insurance $70
Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Rockford’s typical property tax (0.55% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Next door

Rockford vs. its neighbors

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

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TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentNew homes 2025Median income
Rockford$250K*———$115,917
Seymour$233K+2.1%$1,10056$64,426

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. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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