Located in Piatt County
The quiet residential community of Monticello is popular with homebuyers looking for highly rater schools, a vibrant park system and proximity to the cities of Champaign, Decatur and Bloomington. "It's a really great place to raise a family," says Realtor Steve Littlefield with Keller Williams Realty. "It's a quaint little village."
Monticello has mostly single-family homes. Housing options include older bungalows, midcentury ranch-style homes and New Traditional homes. "They do have some new construction going in, so they have some opportunities there," Littlefield says. Neighborhood streets in Monticello are often tree-lined. Some have sidewalks. Homes here sell for between $100,000 and $700,000, but an occasional older fixer-upper may sell below that, and a spacious new build may sell above that. Monticello has a 2 out of 10 CAP Index Crime Score, well below the national average of 4.
Monticello Community Unit School District No. 25 gets an A-minus grade from Niche. Washington Elementary School receives a B-plus, White Health Elementary School gets an A, and Monticello Middle School and Monticello High School get A-minuses. Monticello High School offers dual credit courses with Parkland College and Eastern Illinois University. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 22 miles away, enrolls about 35,000 undergraduate students annually.
Monticello has three parks, two trails, a dog park, a driving range, a community center and a swimming pool. Nick's Park is a 1-acre community park with a playground and a walking path. East Prairie Bicycle & Walking Path is a mile-long trail that welcomes walkers, cyclists, runners and roller bladers. Monticello Family Aquatic Center, or "The MFAC," is a community pool with six swimming lanes and a water slide.
"It's a very self-sufficient city," Littlefield says. "Anything you need to live, you can get there, from groceries to small shops to car dealerships." 3Ravens Food & Spirits is a local Irish-American pub and restaurant. Filippo's Pizza is a cozy local restaurant founded by Italian immigrants in the 1970s. Residents get groceries from County Market and can pick up fast food from chains like McDonald's, Dairy Queen and Subway.
Monticello sits just south of Interstate 72, about 20 miles from Champaign, 30 miles from Decatur and 45 miles from Bloomington. Kirby Medical Center provides both primary care and emergency room services. To travel out of town, residents can drive 19 miles east to Willard Airport, which offers nonstop flights to Chicago O'Hare and Dallas-Fort Worth.
Interested in learning more about homes in this area? Reach out to , an experienced agent in this area.
Barb Schwartz
Keller Williams Realty Atl. Partners
(217) 794-6090
79 Total Sales
1 in Monticello
$285,000 Price
PJ Trautman
Trautman Real Estate Agency & Appraisal LLC
(217) 858-4950
153 Total Sales
1 in Monticello
$130,000 Price
Brock Collins
eXp Realty, LLC - Mahomet Branch
(217) 688-9482
62 Total Sales
1 in Monticello
$269,900 Price
Russ Taylor
Taylor Realty Associates
(217) 858-4248
517 Total Sales
14 in Monticello
$70K - $555K Price Range
Sean Caldwell
RE/MAX Rising
(309) 726-4073
340 Total Sales
2 in Monticello
$220K - $315K Price Range
Colleen Brinkoetter
Brinkoetter, Realtors
(217) 615-5474
109 Total Sales
2 in Monticello
$429,900 Price Range
On average, homes in Monticello, IL sell after 38 days on the market compared to the national average of 53 days. The median sale price for homes in Monticello, IL over the last 12 months is $267,200, up 13% from the median home sale price over the previous 12 months.
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