Home values, rents and more in the Madison metro area
September 2026 figures from Zillow and the U.S. Census Bureau · updated 2026-11-07
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How the Madison metro compares
The typical home in the Madison metro area is worth about $446,000, according to the Zillow Home Value Index for September 2026. Home values in the Madison metro are 32% above the typical value in Wisconsin ($337,000) and 22% above the U.S. typical value ($366,000).
Over the past year, home values in the Madison metro rose 3.1%, compared with +5.1% in Wisconsin and +1.2% nationally.
Typical rent is $1,780 a month (Zillow Observed Rent Index), 24% above Wisconsin ($1,437) and 8% below the U.S. ($1,932). Rents rose 2.3% over the past year.
The median household income is $88,804, against $77,485 in Wisconsin and $80,734 in the U.S. (Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–24).
About 709,685 people live in the Madison metro (Census Bureau estimate for July 2025).
The Madison metro has the 112th-highest typical home value of the 923 metro areas in the United States and the highest of 26 in Wisconsin with Zillow figures.
Part of: Wisconsin
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Nearby metro areas
Counties in the Madison metro
Cities in the Madison metro
- Madison, WI $425,000
- Sun Prairie, WI $442,000
- Fitchburg, WI $504,000
- Middleton, WI $614,000
- Waunakee, WI $582,000
- Verona, WI $591,000
- Stoughton, WI $432,000
- Oregon, WI $493,000
- De Forest, WI $449,000
- Monroe, WI $281,000
- Portage, WI $294,000
- Windsor, WI $524,000
- McFarland, WI $491,000
- Monona, WI $473,000
- Cottage Grove, WI $474,000
- Columbus, WI $314,000
- Dodgeville, WI $334,000
- Bristol, WI $647,000
- Cross Plains, WI $511,000
- Marshall, WI $363,000
- Lodi, WI $464,000
- Brodhead, WI $314,000
- Burke, WI $531,000
- Springfield, WI $688,000
- Poynette, WI $407,000
- Belleville, WI $366,000
- Mineral Point, WI $331,000
- Wisconsin Dells, WI $298,000
- Deerfield, WI $422,000
- Springdale, WI $621,000
- New Glarus, WI $354,000
- Shorewood Hills, WI $1,203,000
- Albion, WI $387,000
- Roxbury, WI $583,000
- Black Earth, WI $388,000
- Mazomanie, WI $393,000
- Fall River, WI $370,000
- Pardeeville, WI $365,000
- Cambridge, WI $375,000
- Brooklyn, WI $496,000
Sources
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), all homes, middle tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, September 2026. Rents: Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), seasonally adjusted. Population: Census population estimates (July 2025) for states, metros and counties; ACS 2020–24 for cities and ZIP codes. Income: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–24 5-year estimates. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files. Compiled by Home Economics.
"Typical" is Zillow's middle-tier value (homes between the 35th and 65th percentiles), not a median sale price. Changes are over the 12 months to September 2026.