Delavan, Wisconsin.
Typical home $332,813 (+5.7% in a year), asking rent $1,362 . Whitewater, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$975 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,070 +6%
- $314,743$332,813 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,138 +26%
- $263,675$332,813 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.
- Delavan$1,747
- 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 Delavan, WI rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Delavan, Walworth County, Wisconsin
Delavan is a city of 8,505 people in Walworth County. Half its households earn more than $65,357 a year and half less, against $80,520 across Walworth County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Walworth County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Delavan is a small city in Walworth County where residents are somewhat younger than in many American communities. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though there are more renters than across the county as a whole. Household incomes run below the county's, and winters are cold and snowy, with warm summers and rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Delavan are the Delavan-Darien School District, Andes Candies and Swiss Tech. Commutes are short, and unemployment across the county is low and close to where it stood a year earlier.
Things to do. Geneva Lake, a lake a short drive away, is the closest large stretch of water, and Whitewater Lake, a reservoir, is also a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Big Foot Beach State Park, a protected area, and to Rotary Botanical Gardens, a botanical garden.
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- 3,952households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Walworth County had 45,772 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Delavan Wwtp weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Delavan
- G10Auto dealer304
- Delavan-Darien School DistrictSchool district267FTE
- Andes CandiesChocolate made from purchased chocolate170
- Swiss TechPrecision turned product manufacturing124
- MicroPrecisionPrecision turned product manufacturing104
- Kunes Country Ford-LincolnAutomobile dealers, new only or new and used73
- Soaris DelavanAll-terrain vehicles, wheeled or tracked, manufacturing72
- Kunes Auto ManagementAgreement corporation67
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,300 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Walworth 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 Walworth County and the Whitewater, WI metro.
Delavan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Delavan$332,813
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Delavan 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.
- Delavan18.83%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Delavan78
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Delavan20
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Delavan$286,049
- United States$371,553
Zip codes with a Delavan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Delavan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.