Edgerton, Wisconsin.
Typical home $306,513 (+4.7% in a year), asking rent $1,282 . Janesville-Beloit, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$919 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,725 +5%
- $292,788$306,513 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,215 +29%
- $237,298$306,513 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.
- Edgerton$1,609
- 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 Edgerton, WI rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Edgerton, Rock County, Wisconsin
Edgerton is a city of 5,945 people in Rock County. Half its households earn more than $72,489 a year and half less, against $75,673 across Rock County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Rock County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Edgerton is a small city in Rock County, Wisconsin, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run a little below the county's, and winters are cold and snowy, with a January that rarely gets far above freezing and summers that turn comfortably warm by July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Edgerton are the Edgerton School District, Edgerton Hospital & Health Services and I-K-I Manufacturing. Commutes are moderate in length, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Saunders Creek runs in or beside town, and the Yahara River is a short drive away. The Stoughton Opera House, a theatre, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Aztalan State Park, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away.
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- 2,351households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rock County had 69,744 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 36 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stoughton weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Edgerton
- Edgerton School DistrictSchool district292FTE
- I-K-I ManufacturingAll other miscellaneous chemical products200
- Edgerton Hospital & Health ServicesCritical access hospital147FTE
- Wisconsin Illinois Senior HousingHomes for the elderly with nursing care90
- Edgerton GearMachine shops42
- Nelson Young Lumber CompanyLumber retailing yards36
- Rinehart TaxidermyTaxidermy supplies merchant wholesalers33
- Commercial Nation Roofing & ConstructionRoofing contractors26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 684 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Rock 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 Rock County and the Janesville-Beloit, WI metro.
Edgerton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Edgerton$306,513
- 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 3 Edgerton 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Edgerton16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Edgerton8
Zip codes with a Edgerton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Edgerton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.