Deerfield, Wisconsin.
Typical home $422,191 (+3.0% in a year), asking rent $1,725 . Madison, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,184 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,103 +3%
- $410,088$422,191 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $86,214 +26%
- $335,977$422,191 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.
- Deerfield$2,216
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Deerfield, WI rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Deerfield, Dane County, Wisconsin
Deerfield is a village of 2,507 people in Dane County. Half its households earn more than $91,029 a year and half less, against $89,975 across Dane County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% 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 people in Dane County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Deerfield is a small village in Dane County, Wisconsin, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the population is somewhat younger than you might expect for a place this size. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than in many communities. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops and in manufacturing. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and a good number of people work from home. In the village itself, the larger workplaces include ZOLL Medical Deerfield, which makes surgical and medical instruments, BCP Transportation, a long-distance trucking carrier, and the Deerfield Community School District.
Things to do. Rock Lake is a lake a short drive away, and Lake Kegonsa State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive off. Little Amerricka, an amusement park, is a short drive away too. For a day in Madison, Olbrich Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden a longer drive away.
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- 990households
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Dane County 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 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 42 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lake Mills Wwtp weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Deerfield
- ZOLl Medical DeerfieldSurgical and medical instrument manufacturing167
- BCP TransportationMotor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload114
- Deerfield Community School DistrictSchool district111FTE
- C. M. Morris GroupFireproofing buildings45
- Central Ceiling SystemsPanel, metal, installation37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 363 people in all. School districts come 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
- 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.
Deerfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Deerfield$422,191
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Deerfield listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Deerfield19.37%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Deerfield22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Deerfield11
Zip codes with a Deerfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Deerfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.