Barton, Wisconsin.
Typical home $456,898 (+6.2% in a year). Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,251 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,770 +6%
- $430,128$456,898 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,962 +23%
- $370,936$456,898 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.
- Barton$2,398
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Barton, WI rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Barton, Washington County, Wisconsin
Barton is a town of 2,743 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $120,304 a year and half less, against $96,359 across Washington County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Barton is a small town in Washington County, Wisconsin, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, and summers turn pleasantly warm by July.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, banking and insurance, and the building trades also employing a good number. Within Barton itself, JAT, a local freight trucking company, West Bend Elevator, an animal feed wholesaler, and A&W Iron & Metal, which deals in tires and scrap, are among the largest workplaces. The commute to work is fairly long, and only a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. Kettle Moraine State Forest, a protected area, and Little Cedar Lake are both a short drive away, and the Kohlsville River runs in or beside town. Lizard Mound County Park, an archaeological site, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Road America, the race track, is a longer drive away.
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- 1,067households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 58,003 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Bend Public Works weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Barton
- JATGeneral freight trucking, local35
- West Bend ElevatorAnimal feeds merchant wholesalers29
- A&W Iron & MetalTires, scrap, merchant wholesalers28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 92 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Washington 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 Washington County and the Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
Barton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Barton$456,898
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Barton6
Zip codes with a Barton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Barton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.