Zip lookup · WI

53532
De Forest, Wisconsin.

De Forest, Dane County, WI · Madison, WI metro · population 16,514

What it costs per month · 53532 $2,508/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,353 (+117%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $14,555 +3%
$463,341$477,896 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $106,452 +29%
$371,445$477,896 since Sep 2021

Monthly payment to buy the typical home

Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 53532 $2,508 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 53532$2,508
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.

Typical home values in zip 53532 rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 53532 rose 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 53532 runs $1,907/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.

That is $3,652 a month against $1,745 rent: a $2,508 mortgage payment, plus $632 property tax and $512 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 53532

The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.

$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 $3,500 2024 2025 2026 Owning all in $3,652 Renting $1,745 Mortgage only $2,508
$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 $3,500 2024 2025 2026
  • Owning all in$3,652
  • Renting$1,745
  • Mortgage only$2,508

Property tax · $632/mo 1.59% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for 2 counties

Insurance & upkeep · $512/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.

Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.

This zip spans 2 counties: Dane County, WI 85% · Columbia County, WI 15%

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: De Forest, WI — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $1,745 as of Sep 2026
+1.7%year on year
Typical home value $477,896 as of Sep 2026
+3.1%year on year

Asking rent — 53532

Against the Madison, WI metro and the national benchmark.

$1,500 $1,600 $1,700 $1,800 $1,900 2024 2025 2026 53532 $1,745 Madison $1,780 United States $1,932
$1,500 $1,600 $1,700 $1,800 $1,900 2024 2025 2026
  • 53532$1,745
  • Madison$1,780
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 53532

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$250,000 $300,000 $350,000 $400,000 $450,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 53532 $477,896 Madison $445,747 United States $366,157
$250,000 $300,000 $350,000 $400,000 $450,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 53532$477,896
  • Madison$445,747
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

10 mi 20 mi 50 mi
Miles Zip City Population Rent Home value
3.0 53598 Windsor 4,176 — $509,857
5.7 53911 Arlington 1,450 — $375,968
6.8 53590 Sun Prairie 45,602 $1,642 $454,986
7.8 53704 Madison 46,730 $1,546 $373,737
8.1 53597 Waunakee 21,426 $2,126 $596,803
10.1 53529 Dane 2,611 — $506,474
10.4 53714 Madison 16,169 $1,493 $378,306
10.8 53718 Madison 18,989 $1,627 $434,496
11.1 53955 Poynette 6,125 — $407,977
12.0 53703 Madison 37,659 $1,953 $450,167
12.7 53555 Lodi 8,933 — $476,011
12.7 53716 Madison 18,596 $1,820 $414,403
12.9 53960 Rio 3,396 — $350,016
13.3 53726 Madison 5,043 $2,001 $789,830
13.5 53715 Madison 15,974 $2,280 $502,364
13.6 53559 Marshall 6,110 — $415,858
13.9 53705 Madison 25,017 $1,829 $553,806
14.3 53562 Middleton 29,790 $1,578 $620,703
14.5 53527 Cottage Grove 11,924 $1,745 $477,861
15.0 53925 Columbus 8,754 — $349,738
15.0 53713 Madison 24,351 $1,403 $359,178
15.6 53717 Madison 13,052 — $511,481
16.6 53711 Madison 51,279 $1,713 $505,853
17.1 53558 Mcfarland 13,164 $1,715 $491,261
17.4 53531 Deerfield 4,430 $1,725 $432,160
17.6 53719 Madison 34,115 $1,608 $428,179
17.6 53932 Fall River 2,495 — $358,670
18.1 53528 Cross Plains 6,263 $1,721 $536,986
18.4 53594 Waterloo 5,199 — $360,335
19.0 53561 Merrimac 1,872 — $506,995

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.