Real Estate

Nearly 30 Percent of Lemont Homeowners are Mortgage-Free: Report

Crain's Chicago Business reports 29.7 percent of homeowners in Lemont own their homes outright.

Communities with a large segment of senior citizens or high median incomes tend to have the highest percentage mortgage-free homes, according to Crain’s Chicago Business

According to the Crain's analysis, of 4,697 Lemont homeowners, 29.7 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? 

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Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story misstated the number of mortgage-free homes in Lemont. We regret the error.

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