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Section 8 & HUD affordable housing across Illinois
Browse 102 counties and 56 small towns and rural communities in Illinois. Each page lists FY2024 Fair Market Rent for studio–4BR units, HUD income limits at 30/50/80% of AMI, and the housing authority that processes Section 8 vouchers locally.
How HUD housing data is organized in Illinois
HUD publishes Fair Market Rent and income limits at the county or metropolitan area level, not the city level — so two towns inside the same Illinois county will share the same FMR ceiling and the same income-eligibility brackets. That's why this directory leads with counties: the county page is the single most useful starting point for anyone navigating the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program in non-metro Illinois.
Below you'll find every county in Illinois, separated into rural / non-metro counties (where this site focuses) and larger or metro counties. After the county lists, scroll down for the alphabetized index of small towns and unincorporated communities we cover in this state.
Rural & non-metro counties (99)
Counties dominated by small towns, agricultural land, or unincorporated communities. These are the counties most commonly skipped by big-city apartment-search sites.
- Adams County
- Alexander County
- Bond County
- Boone County
- Brown County
- Bureau County
- Calhoun County
- Carroll County
- Cass County
- Champaign County
- Christian County
- Clark County
- Clay County
- Clinton County
- Coles County
- Cook County
- Crawford County
- Cumberland County
- De Witt County
- DeKalb County
- Douglas County
- DuPage County
- Edgar County
- Edwards County
- Effingham County
- Fayette County
- Ford County
- Franklin County
- Fulton County
- Gallatin County
- Greene County
- Grundy County
- Hamilton County
- Hancock County
- Henderson County
- Henry County
- Iroquois County
- Jackson County
- Jasper County
- Jefferson County
- Jersey County
- Jo Daviess County
- Johnson County
- Kane County
- Kankakee County
- Kendall County
- Knox County
- LaSalle County
- Lake County
- Lawrence County
- Lee County
- Livingston County
- Logan County
- Macon County
- Macoupin County
- Madison County
- Marion County
- Marshall County
- Mason County
- Massac County
- McDonough County
- McHenry County
- McLean County
- Menard County
- Mercer County
- Monroe County
- Montgomery County
- Morgan County
- Moultrie County
- Ogle County
- Peoria County
- Perry County
- Piatt County
- Pike County
- Pope County
- Randolph County
- Richland County
- Rock Island County
- Saline County
- Sangamon County
- Schuyler County
- Scott County
- Shelby County
- St. Clair County
- Stark County
- Stephenson County
- Tazewell County
- Union County
- Vermilion County
- Wabash County
- Warren County
- Washington County
- Wayne County
- White County
- Whiteside County
- Will County
- Williamson County
- Winnebago County
- Woodford County
Other counties (3)
Larger counties and metropolitan areas in Illinois.
Small towns & communities in Illinois (56)
- Abingdon
- Alvan (Alvin)
- Ashton
- Basco
- Bement
- Bolingbrook
- Broughton
- Bush
- Carbon Cliff
- Chadwick
- Cisne
- Compton
- Cullom
- DeKalb
- Downs
- Eddyville
- Elsah
- Farmer City
- Forsyth
- Genoa
- Golden
- Greenwood
- Harvard
- Hillcrest
- Hoyleton
- Itasca
- Kangley
- Kirkland
- Lake Zurich
- Libertyville
- Long Point
- Malden
- Martinton
- Mendon
- Minooka
- Mount Erie
- Neoga
- Noble
- Oak Lawn
- Olmsted
- Palos Hills
- Percy
- Polo
- Rantoul
- Roanoke
- Roseville
- Sauget
- Shelbyville
- South Barrington
- St. Elmo
- Stonington
- Taylor Springs
- Toulon
- Varna
- Walnut Hill
- Weldon