The story of this market
The typical home in Calhoun County, Illinois sells for about $129,000, or $127 per square foot.
Prices are down 33.2% from a year ago, which gives buyers more room to negotiate. Homes take about 98 days to sell, which is slow. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $1,349 a month.
HUD sets the fair market rent for a 2-bedroom at $1,349 a month. FEMA's National Risk Index rates overall hazard risk here as Relatively Low.
Monthly price momentum
Home values since 2015
+5.4%
IL · past 12 months
Freddie Mac House Price Index, single-family homes, monthly through 2026-08. Each line starts at 100 in January 2015, so a reading of 180 means prices are up 80% since then.
Rent benchmark
Fair market rent by size
$1,731
3-bed / month
HUD Fair Market Rents, fiscal 2027, for this county. A typical rent for a modest unit, used to set housing-voucher payments.
Natural hazard exposure
The area's risk shape
68
Relatively Low
FEMA National Risk Index. Each spoke is a hazard ranked nationally, where 100 is the most exposed. Expected annual loss: $4,083,972.
Mortgage activity
Home lending in this county
88.7%
2019 approval rate
| Year | Applications | Loans made | Approval | Investor share | Median home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 114 | 87 | 88% | 11.8% | $130,000 |
| 2019 | 115▲ | 85 | 88.7%▲ | 7.8% | $145,000▲ |
CFPB Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records: every mortgage application reported by lenders for homes in this county. Approval rate is approved ÷ decided (withdrawn and incomplete files excluded). Investor share and home value are the median census tract.
Calhoun County, Illinois
Calhoun County's housing market is characterized by extremely low liquidity and high volatility, with very few sales recorded in recent months. While median home values have shown long-term appreciation, the most recent data indicates a sharp year-over-year decline in median sale prices. The market remains highly rural with limited inventory and long commute times.
No ARED distress-ledger coverage for this county yet — the foreclosure ingest rotates the national county directory, and filings appear here once the county's posted notices are read. Key-figure check: median price diverges 19.4% from the nearest retained anchor (published ten-year series (2025)) — beyond the 12.5% tolerance; an automated validation case is open and the value publishes pending its verdict.
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Median prices moved up 16.5% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 19 days on market with 2.0 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
12% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 100.75% of asking — demand is running ahead of supply.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 3.2% · poverty 6.3% — a stable, low-distress profile.
Deterministic aggregate of 4 researched ZIP reports of 9 — sales_count-weighted (population fallback); per point, children lacking the value or its weight are excluded. Tax rates, sentiment and context notes are tier-native and never roll.
Calhoun County, Illinois — researched county-level history with a deterministic 1 / 3 / 5-year projection
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 6.9%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
No researched properties in this county yet — the property base layer populates as property research runs, and each property feeds its ZIP's roll-up.
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| 62013 | Brussels | $553,000 | $319 | — | 55 | — | — | — | — | $960 | researched Sep 24 |
| 62036 | Golden Eagle | $185,000 | $112 | +2.4% | 92 | 96.5% | 7.1% | 7 | 14 | $563 | researched Sep 24 |
| 62045 | Hamburg | $249,000 | $109 | 0% | 97 | 100% | — | 1 | 1 | $1,060 | researched Sep 20 |
| 62047 | Hardin | $350,000 | $185 | +16.7% | 18 | 100.8% | 12% | 1.9 | 335 | $476 | researched Sep 24 |
| 62053 | Kampsville | $145,000 | $98 | +2.1% | 64 | 96.5% | 15% | 6 | 12 | $594 | researched Sep 24 |
| 62065 | Michael | $127,000 | $112 | -2.3% | 145 | 96.5% | — | 12.4 | 4 | $850 | researched Sep 24 |
| 62086 | Sorento | $199,900 | $137 | +15% | 31 | — | — | — | 776 | $533 | researched Sep 24 |
Figures are each ZIP report's own latest research — the county roll-up aggregates them sales_count-weighted (population fallback); ZIPs cycle quarterly.
The county economy is small and rural, with limited major infrastructure or large-scale corporate development momentum.
Composed from the ARED governance burden registry — tier-native tax structure (state + county + city + special districts), never averaged. State (Illinois) — Property Tax Assessment (Fair Cash Value): Property is assessed at 33 1/3% of its fair cash value. The tax bill is calculated by multiplying the equalized assessed value (EAV) by the aggregate tax rate of the local taxing districts.
The economy is primarily rural and small-scale, employing approximately 1,910 people with a focus on local banking and agriculture.
The county relies on local road networks with an average commute time of 47.7 minutes, significantly higher than the state average.
Data retrieved from Census Reporter and U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts.
Sellers must provide a written disclosure report to prospective buyers detailing material defects in the property as defined by 765 ILCS 77/35.
765 ILCS 77/1 et seq.
Property is assessed at 33 1/3% of its fair cash value. The tax bill is calculated by multiplying the equalized assessed value (EAV) by the aggregate tax rate of the local taxing districts. Exemptions, such as the homestead exemption, reduce the EAV before the tax rate is applied.
35 ILCS 200/9-145
Governance registry — every jurisdiction re-researches on a rolling 90-day cycle. Property reports compose these inherited burdens into a per-parcel ledger with conditional determinations. Informational only — not legal advice.