Burke, Wisconsin.
Typical home $531,451 (+1.8% in a year). Madison, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,463 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,374 +2%
- $522,078$531,451 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $117,179 +28%
- $414,272$531,451 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.
- Burke$2,789
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Burke, WI rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Burke, Dane County, Wisconsin
Burke is a town of 3,265 people in Dane County. Half its households earn more than $104,025 a year and half less, against $89,975 across Dane County; 1% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Dane County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Burke is a small town on the edge of the Madison area, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Household incomes run higher than across Dane County, 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 precipitation is steady through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in government, and in shops. Within Burke itself, some of the larger workplaces are Redwood Services, a heating and air-conditioning contractor, Ridge Top Exteriors, a roofing company, and Midwest Veterinary Supply, a wholesaler of veterinary equipment. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Monona and Lake Mendota are both a short drive away, and both are well known for the water and shoreline they offer. Olbrich Botanical Gardens, also a short drive away, is a botanical garden. Governor Nelson State Park, a protected area a short drive away, is another place to spend time outdoors.
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- 1,119households
- 1%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dane County had 361,286 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 52 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Madison Dane Regional Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burke
- Redwood ServicesHeating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractors198
- Ridge Top Exteriors - Corp OfficeRoofing contractors192
- Diesel ForwardShop equipment, service station, merchant wholesalers189
- ABSAnimal semen banks152
- Kwik Trip CT Perishable DeliveryGeneral freight trucking, local91
- Midwest Veterinary SupplyVeterinarians' equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers86
- Van Ert Electric CoElectrical work82
- Peterbilt of Wisconsin, Inc. - MadisonMotor vehicle merchant wholesalers71
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,228 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 wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Dane 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 Dane County and the Madison, WI metro.
Burke home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burke$531,451
- 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.
- Burke9
Zip codes with a Burke address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burke — 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.