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Raw data sources: American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Methodology: NeighborhoodScout uses over 600 characteristics to build a neighborhood profile… Read more about Scout's Real Estate Data
With a population of 4,463, 1,461 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $364,558, Wonder Lake real estate prices are well above average cost compared to national prices.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Wonder Lake, accounting for 98.98% of the village's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Wonder Lake include row houses and other attached homes ( 1.02%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Wonder Lake. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 93.63% of Wonder Lake's homes, and 72.70% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
At the end of World War II, American soldiers returned home triumphant and, with the help of the GI Bill, built homes by the millions on the edges of America's cities. These homes were predominantly capes and ranches, modest in size, but built to house a growing middle-class as the 20th century became the American century. Wonder Lake's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 43.61% of the village's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Wonder Lake include homes built between 2000 and later ( 26.85%) and housing constructed between 1970-1999 ( 21.55%). There's also some housing in Wonder Lake built before 1939 ( 7.99%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Wonder Lake have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 100.88%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Wonder Lake house appreciation rate of 7.22%.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Wonder Lake's appreciation rate, at 6.86%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Wonder Lake's appreciation rate has been 2.79%, which annualizes to a rate of 11.63%.
Relative to Illinois, our data show that Wonder Lake's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 60% of the other cities and towns in Illinois.
$364,558
for Illinois
for nation
1,461
$2,262 / per month