Active residential listings in Tallula and the surrounding Menard County area — represented by Apex Realty agents who live nearby and know the local market.
Listings represented directly by Apex Realty across the Tallula/Menard County area. For the full Tallula MLS inventory, scroll down to the browse map.
Click any photo — opens that active Menard County listing.
Tallula sits in western Menard County along IL-97 in Menard County — population around ~600. Anchored by PORTA CUSD #202 (shared with Petersburg/Oakford), it offers historic village; Edgar Lee Masters spent boyhood years here, later writing Spoon River Anthology.
Apex Realty is headquartered in downtown Jacksonville at 1515 W. Walnut, Suite #4 — but every Apex agent works the full Menard County market and the surrounding service area. We know which Tallula streets turn over fastest, which corners of the market reward patience, and which deals never reach the MLS at all. The kind of local intelligence you can't get from a Zillow algorithm.
Whether you're relocating for Springfield (25 mi, 35 min), looking for a starter home, downsizing into a ranch, or buying acreage just outside town — we work every street in Tallula and every rural pocket within reach.
Meet the Apex teamLive data from the RMLS Alliance MLS — every active residential listing across Menard County (including Tallula) from every brokerage. Click any pin to see details, photos, and pricing.
Schools shape every Tallula home search — what's in-boundary, what attendance line you're on the wrong side of, which streets feed which building. Here's the local read.
Tallula is part of PORTA CUSD #202, the consolidated district anchored in Petersburg. Tallula doesn't have its own school buildings — kids ride the bus ~12 minutes north to the PORTA campus in Petersburg. The district's name comes from Petersburg, Oakford, and historical connections through Riverton lines, with Tallula tied in via the consolidation.
From a Tallula address, your kids ride to PORTA Elementary (K–4), PORTA Junior High (5–8), and PORTA High School (the Bluejays, grades 9–12) — all on the Petersburg campus on West Madison Street. Bus routes are well-established and stable; most kids who live in Tallula graduate from PORTA having known the same classmates since kindergarten.
Tallula has no in-town private school. Families occasionally choose Athens CUSD #213 (a few miles east) or the Springfield Catholic schools, but the geography makes PORTA the natural fit for most. Edgar Lee Masters — who wrote Spoon River Anthology based partly on Tallula and Petersburg — spent his boyhood here, which gives the local literary culture an outsized footprint for a village this small.
Buying in Tallula village or the surrounding rural pocket of Menard County usually means PORTA schools — but the line is not exactly the village boundary. A handful of rural parcels north or west of Tallula feed into Greenview or Athens instead. Verify the assignment before writing if a specific PORTA building matters.
Tallula is small enough that "neighborhood" usually means a few blocks of pre-war homes near downtown, the streets along western Menard County along IL-97, and the rural acreage just outside town. We work every part of it. Tap the map below for live listings, or talk to an Apex agent for the off-MLS situations.
Tallula's residential market has been one of the steadier in the Menard County area — anchored by PORTA CUSD #202 (shared with Petersburg/Oakford) and shaped by commuter demand from Springfield. Days-on-market for well-priced homes typically lands in the two-to-four-week window.
That's where Tallula's first-time buyers, relocations, and downsizers compete. Move-in-ready homes in that range often see multiple offers in the first weekend. Above the top of the band, days-on-market climbs sharply. Below the bottom of the band usually signals deferred maintenance — worth a structural look before writing.
For sellers, this means strategic pricing matters more than aggressive listing. We've seen Tallula homes priced 5% above market sit for 90+ days while identical homes priced at fair market close in two weeks. For buyers, this means preparation matters: pre-approval letter in hand, agent on speed-dial, and a willingness to write within 48 hours of a tour are what separate winning offers from also-rans.
In a community this size, many of the best transactions never list publicly. Apex agents hear about properties through neighbors, contractors, estate attorneys, and twelve years of past clients. If you're a serious buyer with clear criteria, tell us — we'll work the network alongside the MLS.
For market data on specific Tallula streets or price bands — recent sold comparables, average days-on-market, school-zone trends — contact us directly. We'll pull the report and walk through it with you, no obligation.
Median sale prices in Tallula have run in the $80K–$140K range over the past 18 months. Pricing varies by age of home, lot size, and location within the city. The Apex featured listings carousel above and the full MLS browse map show real-time pricing for every active property.
PORTA CUSD #202 is the primary public district. Specific school-attendance boundaries are listed on every MLS detail page; we factor those into the conversation when school zone matters to a family.
Effective tax rates in Tallula typically run around 2.0–2.3% of assessed value, depending on the exact township and school district overlay. Specific tax amounts are listed on every MLS detail page; we factor them into the affordability conversation early.
For long-term rental income, Tallula can offer favorable price-to-rent ratios compared to most US markets — entry-point single-family rentals can cash-flow with conventional financing where tenant demand is stable. Dagmar Schroetter on our team specializes in investment analysis if you want a deeper read.
Tallula to Springfield is 25 mi, 35 min. Plenty of Apex buyers split the difference — they work in the nearby employment hub and live in Tallula for cost-of-living and pace-of-life reasons.
For MLS-listed properties accepting showings, tours can usually be scheduled within 24 hours — often same-day for Apex or other Menard-County brokerage listings. Call the office at 217-960-8474 or use the contact form, and we'll get you in.
Yes. We represent buyers and sellers across all of Menard County and the surrounding service area — including Petersburg, Oakford, Pleasant Plains. Whether you're buying acreage 15 minutes outside town or selling a farm-and-house in a neighboring township, the same agents and the same process apply.
Whether you're three years out or three weeks from moving, an Apex agent will walk you through the Tallula market — what's available, what's coming, and what you should actually pay attention to. No pressure, no obligation, just a real conversation.
Browse homes for sale and local market insight in the communities surrounding Tallula — all within Apex Realty’s Menard County coverage.
