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Article updated at 10 a.m. on April 4, 2013 Communities with a large segment of senior citizens or<a href="http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130330/ISSUE01/130109764/where-have-most-people-paid-off-their-mortgages" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> high median incomes tend to have the highest percentage mortgage-free homes</a>, according to Crain's Chicago Business.   According to the Crain's analysis, of 6,365 Homewood homeowners, 27.4 percent are mortgage-free. These numbers are higher than the Chicagoland average of 26 percent of homeowners being mortgage-free.   If you own a home, are you still paying off your mortgage? When will you be mortgage-free?

Article updated at 10 a.m. on April 4, 2013

Communities with a large segment of senior citizens or<a href="http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130330/ISSUE01/130109764/where-have-most-people-paid-off-their-mortgages" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> high median incomes tend to have the highest percentage mortgage-free homes</a>, according to Crain’s Chicago Business.   According to the Crain's analysis, of 6,365 Homewood homeowners, 27.4 percent are mortgage-free. These numbers are higher than the Chicagoland average of 26 percent of homeowners being mortgage-free.

If you own a home, are you still paying off your mortgage? When will you be mortgage-free?

Crain's Chicago Business reports 27.4 percent of Homewood homeowners own their homes outright.