Albany, Wisconsin.
Typical home $350,225 (+7.3% in a year). Madison, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,084 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,716 +7%
- $326,509$350,225 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $101,106 +41%
- $249,119$350,225 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.
- Albany$1,838
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Albany, WI rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Albany, Green County, Wisconsin
Albany is a village of 1,096 people in Green County. Half its households earn more than $72,649 a year and half less, against $82,852 across Green County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Green County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Albany is a small village in Green County, Wisconsin, and its population is small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Residents are somewhat older than in many places, and household incomes sit below the county's. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is fairly long, which fits with how many jobs are found elsewhere in the county. Among the largest workplaces across Green County are Monroe Clinic, Colony Brands and Klondike Cheese Co.
Things to do. The Little Sugar River runs in or beside town, and the Albany Wildlife Area, a protected area, is also close by for time outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive away, New Glarus Woods State Park is another protected area, and Lake Monona is a lake for those willing to travel.
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- 437households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Green County had 15,754 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 37 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brodhead Wwtp weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Green County
- SC Data CenterMail-order houses1,258
- Colony BrandsMail-order houses827
- Monroe ClinicGeneral hospital808FTE
- Aebi-SchmidtTruck bodies assembling on purchased chassis511
- US07 New Glarus Link SnacksCured meats made from purchased carcasses368
- Klondike Cheese CoCheese, natural, manufacturing321
- Monroe School DistrictSchool district319FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters295
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 40 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,243 people in all across the county; Albany has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Green County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Green County and the Madison, WI metro.
Albany home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Albany$350,225
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Albany11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Albany4
Zip codes with a Albany address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Albany — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.