De Soto, Wisconsin.
Typical home $237,130 (+7.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$697 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,335 +8%
- $219,794$237,130 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,879 +31%
- $181,251$237,130 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.
- De Soto$1,245
- 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 De Soto, WI rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in De Soto, Vernon County, Wisconsin
De Soto is a village of 309 people in Vernon County. Half its households earn more than $91,451 a year and half less, against $71,893 across Vernon County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Vernon County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Vernon County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. De Soto is a small village in Vernon County, Wisconsin, with a population small enough that most people likely know one another. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well above the county's, with a smaller share of people living in poverty than you might expect. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also common. Commutes are long, which suggests many people travel some distance to their jobs, and few work from home. Across Vernon County, some of the largest workplaces are Organic Valley LaFarge Headquarters, Vernon Memorial Hospital and Walmart.
Things to do. Big Lake, a reservoir, and Blackhawk Park, a protected area, are in or beside town. A short drive away, the Upper Iowa River offers a place to be out on the water. Effigy Mounds National Monument, an archaeological site, is a longer drive.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Vernon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vernon County had 8,672 jobs in 2025, 0.5% 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 84° and lows near 64°. About 35 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Genoa Dam weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vernon County
- Organic Valley LaFarge HeadquartersHead offices326
- Vernon Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital297FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters251
- Vernon Area Rehabilitation CenterVocational rehabilitation or habilitation services175
- St. Josephs Health ServicesCritical access hospital166FTE
- Viroqua Area School DistrictSchool district162FTE
- Westby Area School DistrictSchool district149FTE
- Bethel Home & ServicesAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities116
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,142 people in all across the county; De Soto 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Vernon 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 Vernon County.
De Soto home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- De Soto$237,130
- 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.
- De Soto8
Zip codes with a De Soto address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls De Soto — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.