Fontana, Wisconsin.
Typical home $673,929 (+6.0% in a year). Whitewater, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,098 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $38,015 +6%
- $635,914$673,929 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $150,931 +29%
- $522,997$673,929 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.
- Fontana$3,537
- 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 Fontana, WI rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fontana, Walworth County, Wisconsin
Fontana is a village of 3,120 people in Walworth County. Half its households earn more than $106,750 a year and half less, against $80,520 across Walworth County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fontana is a small village with a population that skews older than most places, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Household incomes run well above the county's, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. A large share of adults have a four-year degree, and a good number of residents work from home. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm but not hot. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Across Walworth County, the largest workplaces include the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Marcus, which runs hotels with golf courses, and Conagra Brands, a frozen food manufacturer. Unemployment across the county is low and about where it stood a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs than the year before. The typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. Geneva Lake, a short drive away, is the best known place nearby, and Big Foot Beach State Park, also a short drive away, is a protected area along its shore. Lake Geneva Raceway is a race track a short drive away, which suits an afternoon out. For a longer outing, Rotary Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden a longer drive away.
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- 784households
- 59%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 26%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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Walworth County
- University of Wisconsin-WhitewaterUniversity or college1,228
- MarcusHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities995
- Conagra BrandsFrozen specialty food manufacturing709
- Professional Power ProductsWindmills, electric power, generation-type, manufacturing587
- Elkhorn Area School DistrictSchool district440FTE
- MP SystemsTransmission and distribution line construction418
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters385
- Lake Lawn Resort721110 hotels and motels380
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 124 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,028 people in all across the county; Fontana has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- 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.
Fontana home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fontana$673,929
- 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 4 Fontana 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.
- Fontana23.94%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fontana51
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fontana7
Zip codes with a Fontana address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fontana — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.