Arena, Wisconsin.
Typical home $341,479 (+5.5% in a year). Madison, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,006 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,890 +6%
- $323,589$341,479 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,443 +31%
- $260,036$341,479 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.
- Arena$1,792
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Arena, WI rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arena, Iowa County, Wisconsin
Arena is a village of 844 people in Iowa County. Half its households earn more than $69,063 a year and half less, against $82,182 across Iowa County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Iowa County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Iowa County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arena is a small village in Iowa County, Wisconsin, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners and the population is small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and rain and melting snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Iowa County, some of the largest workplaces are Upland Hills Health, Meister Cheese Company and the Dodgeville School District. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Blue Mound State Park and Tower Hill State Park are both protected areas a short drive away, good for time outdoors. Farther afield, Cave of the Mounds is a tourist attraction a longer drive away, and Little Norway, Wisconsin is a museum, also a longer drive away.
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- 391households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What people in Iowa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iowa County had 10,719 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 58°. About 30 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mazomanie Wwtp weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Iowa County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters311
- Upland Hills HealthCritical access hospital310FTE
- Quality Liquid Feeds - CorporateCorporate offices233
- Meister Cheese CompanyCheese manufacturing174
- Dodgeville School DistrictSchool district164FTE
- Mineral Point Unified School DistrictSchool district128FTE
- Iowa-Grant School DistrictSchool district100FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services87
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 27 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,193 people in all across the county; Arena has none 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Iowa County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Iowa County and the Madison, WI metro.
Arena home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arena$341,479
- 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.
- Arena6
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Arena address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arena — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.