Hampshire · Kane County · IL
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About the community
A finished neighborhood with two school campuses on its edges.
Hampshire Prairie is a late-1990s to early-2000s subdivision on the west side of the Village of Hampshire, in the northwest corner of Kane County. It was recorded in phases, with Kane County legal descriptions referencing Hampshire Prairie Units 1 through 5 and platted lot numbers running past 220, and it now covers roughly 250 to 260 homes across Hampshire Drive, Prairieview Parkway, Whitetail Circle, Fox Run Lane, Sawgrass Lane, Fieldstone Lane, Clover Circle, Bluestem Lane, and Woodside Terrace. Every parcel sits inside village corporate limits with municipal water rather than a private well. The feature that sets it apart is not an amenity: District 300 owns the ground on two sides of it, with the Hampshire Elementary campus wrapping the north edge and Hampshire Middle School immediately east.
At a glance
Two school campuses at the property line
The Hampshire Elementary campus abuts the north edge and Hampshire Middle School abuts the east edge, roughly 19 acres of District 300 land against the subdivision. Confirm current assignment by address.
Built 1997 to 2004, fully built out
Roughly 250 to 260 homes, predominantly detached single-family, plus a run of attached duplex pairs concentrated on Hampshire Drive.
About 1,680 to 2,838 sq ft
Two to five bedrooms. Ranch and one-and-a-half story plans are well represented, which matters if you want a first-floor primary suite at this price point.
About a quarter-acre lots
The median lot is roughly 10,800 sq ft, with cul-de-sac and circle lots on Whitetail, Clover, and Fox Run running wider and pie-shaped.
No HOA dues
No association owns property here and none collects dues. The shared open space is owned outright by the Village of Hampshire.
About 14 acres of village open space
Four Village-owned outlots inside the subdivision, maintained through Special Service Area No. 6 and billed through the tax bill rather than as a monthly assessment.
Village water, inside corporate limits
Kane County codes every parcel to Hampshire Village and the village water main atlas shows mains under Fox Run, Whitetail, Fieldstone, Sawgrass, Bluestem, and Hampshire Drive.
I-90 about four miles north
The village puts its tollway interchange at US Route 20, roughly a five to seven minute drive, with O'Hare 40 miles east and Rockford 35 miles west.
What’s close
Hampshire Prairie sits west of State Street and north of the Route 72 commercial corridor, about half a mile west of downtown Hampshire.
- Schools
- Community Unit School District 300. Hampshire High School at 1600 Big Timber Road is the assigned high school. For K through 8, listings report Hampshire Elementary at 321 Terwilliger Street and Hampshire Middle at 560 S. State Street, both physically adjoining the subdivision. Wright Elementary also serves parts of Hampshire and feeds the same middle school, so confirm your address on the district locator.
- Highway
- The I-90 Jane Addams Memorial Tollway interchange at US Route 20 is about four miles north. Illinois Route 72 forms the village's main east-west commercial corridor along the south side of this quadrant, and Illinois Route 47 is the nearest north-south arterial.
- Train
- There is no Metra station in Hampshire. The village directs riders to the Big Timber Road station in Elgin on the Milwaukee District West line on weekdays, roughly a 20 to 25 minute drive, and notes that weekend service requires boarding in downtown Elgin. This is the single biggest tradeoff of the location.
- Parks
- Every parcel is served by the Hampshire Township Park District, whose facilities include Ralph Seyller Memorial Park at 400 E. Jefferson Avenue with a pavilion, large playground, and permanent restrooms, and Bruce Ream Park with a splash pad. Hampshire Forest Preserve is about three miles northeast.
- Shopping
- Downtown Hampshire is about half a mile east, small-scale, with the Ella Johnson Memorial Public Library at 109 S. State Street and Dreymiller & Kray, the 1930s-era smokehouse and butcher at 140 S. State. Full-line grocery and big-box retail mean a drive: Huntley is about nine miles and the Randall Road corridor roughly 11 to 13 miles.
- Hospital
- Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital at 10400 Haligus Road in Huntley is about nine miles, and Advocate Sherman Hospital at 1425 N. Randall Road in Elgin about eleven miles.
What it’s actually like to live here
Hampshire Prairie is what a fully finished neighborhood looks like twenty-five years in. The trees the original buyers planted are now big enough to shade the street, the sidewalks connect to something, and kids on Whitetail Circle and Fox Run Lane ride bikes on loop streets that carry no cut-through traffic. The Village-owned open space at the interior gives the whole thing more breathing room than the lot sizes alone would suggest, and a good number of homes back to that green rather than to another house. The housing stock is varied enough to stay interesting, with ranches and one-and-a-half-story plans mixed among two-stories, and the run of attached homes along Hampshire Drive gives downsizers and first-time buyers a way onto the same streets.
The school adjacency is the real headline, and it is not marketing language. District 300 owns the ground on two sides of this subdivision: the Hampshire Elementary campus wraps the north edge and Hampshire Middle School sits immediately east. For a family with kids in the K through 8 window, that means walking to two schools without crossing an arterial, which very few subdivisions in this corner of Kane County can offer. The high school is a few miles northeast on Big Timber Road, so that one is a bus or a drive. Boundary assignments in District 300 do shift, and the district has brought Hampshire-area proposals to its board more than once in recent years, so confirm current assignment for your specific address before you commit to anything on the strength of the walk.
The tradeoffs are worth saying plainly. There is no Metra station in Hampshire, so a rail commute means driving fifteen to twenty-five minutes to Big Timber Road in Elgin on weekdays and all the way to downtown Elgin on weekends. Full-line grocery and big-box shopping are a nine to thirteen mile trip toward Huntley or Randall Road, which is fine if you plan a weekly run and annoying if you do not. Kane County's composite rate is heavy and roughly two thirds of it goes to the school district, so the tax line will feel high to buyers coming from further out. On the other side of the ledger: no HOA dues, no board, no architectural review, municipal water rather than a well, and a village that owns and maintains the detention and open space so nobody on your block has to organize a pond assessment.
The questions buyers actually ask
Hampshire Prairie FAQ
The questions I get most from buyers shopping Hampshire Prairie. If yours isn't here, text 224-385-8779, same-day reply.
- What are property taxes like?
- Roughly $7,000 – $11,000 per year, depending on home size and value. Kane County assessor records are the source of truth. Happy to pull a specific bill on any home you're considering.
- What's the typical closing timeline?
- 30 to 60 days from accepted offer to keys. Cash deals can close in two weeks. Conventional financing is usually closer to 60.
- Is there an HOA in Hampshire Prairie, and what are the dues?
- There is no homeowners association collecting dues from the detached homes here. Kane County records show no association owning any property in the subdivision, and the shared open space and stormwater detention, about 14 acres across four outlots, are owned outright by the Village of Hampshire. Upkeep is funded through Village Special Service Area No. 6, a maintenance SSA named Hampshire Prairie, which is billed through the property tax bill in the years the village levies it rather than as a monthly assessment. If you are buying one of the attached units on Hampshire Drive, ask whether a party-wall or shared-maintenance agreement applies to that specific pair, since arrangements on attached homes can differ.
- Is the subdivision on village water and sewer, or well and septic?
- It is inside Village of Hampshire corporate limits, and this is not an unincorporated well-and-septic pocket. Kane County's parcel database codes every property here to Hampshire Village, and the village's own water main atlas shows municipal water mains running under Fox Run, Whitetail, Fieldstone, Sawgrass, Bluestem, and Hampshire Drive. Sanitary sewer is village-provided for property inside corporate limits. Confirm the specific service connection for any address you get serious about, since that is a closing-level detail rather than a neighborhood-level one.
- What schools serve Hampshire Prairie?
- Community Unit School District 300. Hampshire High School at 1600 Big Timber Road is the assigned high school. For grades K through 8, listing data reports Hampshire Elementary School at 321 Terwilliger Street and Hampshire Middle School at 560 S. State Street, and both campuses physically adjoin the subdivision, elementary on the north and middle school on the east. Wright Elementary also serves parts of Hampshire and feeds the same middle school, and District 300 has adjusted Hampshire-area boundaries more than once in recent years, so confirm the current assignment for your exact address using the district's locator tool before you rely on it.
- Are these all single-family homes?
- Mostly, but not entirely. The subdivision is predominantly detached single-family, with a run of attached or duplex pairs concentrated on Hampshire Drive. The county legal descriptions make this visible: they repeatedly split original lots with language carving out a portion of a lot, which is the standard way a party-wall duplex is recorded, and Hampshire Drive carries far more parcels than any other street here. Practically, that means the neighborhood has a genuine range of entry points rather than a single product type, and it is worth knowing which one you are touring.
- How high are the property taxes?
- Hampshire's composite rate is roughly 8.2 percent of equalized assessed value based on the village's most recently published breakdown. Because Illinois assesses residential property at about one third of market value, that works out to an approximate effective rate in the range of about 2.1 to 2.6 percent of market value before exemptions. School District 300 accounts for roughly two thirds of the bill, with the fire protection district, the village, Elgin Community College, and Kane County making up most of the rest. If Special Service Area No. 6 is levied in a given year, that charge appears on top of the composite rate. Pull the actual bill from the Kane County Clerk for any specific parcel.
- What do homes cost here, and how is the market?
- Structurally this is a mid-market Hampshire neighborhood. It prices below the newer construction on the east side of town and above the oldest in-town housing stock, and buyers tend to get more finished square footage and a larger lot per dollar than in comparable-age subdivisions closer to the Randall Road corridor, trading proximity for it. Rather than quote a number that goes stale, use the Market snapshot on this page, which pulls live from the MLS.
- Who is the real estate agent for Hampshire Prairie?
- Joe Keegan is the local licensed Illinois real estate broker who covers Hampshire Prairie in Hampshire, IL through Subdiview, a neighborhood-first home search for the Chicago suburbs and collar counties. Joe prices and negotiates from the live MRED sold comps for Hampshire Prairie specifically, not national averages, and can help you buy or sell here. Reach Joe at 224-385-8779 or joe@joekeeganhomes.com.
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Market snapshot
Hampshire Prairie, by the numbers
Live MRED data, refreshed daily. The numbers below tell you what this market is doing today, not what Zillow's algorithm thinks it might be doing six weeks from now.
Typical sale price · last 90 days
$375,000
Sold in the last year
7
This representation is based in whole or in part on data supplied by Midwest Real Estate Data, LLC for the period August 16, 2025 through August 16, 2026. Midwest Real Estate Data, LLC does not guarantee nor is it in any way responsible for its accuracy. Data maintained by Midwest Real Estate Data LLC may not reflect all real estate activity in the market.
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