Arlington, Wisconsin.
Typical home $355,074 (+2.2% in a year). Madison, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$992 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,491 +2%
- $347,584$355,074 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,127 +25%
- $284,947$355,074 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.
- Arlington$1,864
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Arlington, WI rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arlington, Columbia County, Wisconsin
Arlington is a village of 844 people in Columbia County. Half its households earn more than $98,750 a year and half less, against $85,351 across Columbia County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Columbia County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arlington is a small village in Columbia County, home to fewer people than most towns of any size. The population is younger than in many rural communities, and household incomes sit above the county's, with very few households living below the poverty line. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and a typical home is valued well above what many buyers might expect in a village this size. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm, with July the warmest and a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops and manufacturing. Across Columbia County, some of the largest workplaces are Divine Savior Hospital, the Portage Community School District and Prairie Ridge Health. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before. A typical commute is a fairly long one, and a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Goeres Park is a park a short drive away, handy for an afternoon outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Devil's Lake, a lake with a well-known natural setting, and to the Ice Age Trail, a long walking trail. Olbrich Botanical Gardens, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive away.
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- 356households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Columbia County had 21,764 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 43 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Arlington weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Columbia County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters367
- Research Products Corporation - Aprilaire - Poynette PlantAir purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing316
- American Packaging Corporation - ColumbusPrint shops, gravure309
- Portage Community School DistrictSchool district304FTE
- Divine Savior HospitalGeneral hospital280FTE
- Prairie Ridge HealthCritical access hospital274FTE
- Saint-GobainRubber goods, mechanical, manufacturing268
- Associated Milk ProducersCheese manufacturing255
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 72 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,677 people in all across the county; Arlington has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Columbia County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Columbia County and the Madison, WI metro.
Arlington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arlington$355,074
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Arlington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arlington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.