Highland, Wisconsin.
Typical home $293,407 (+9.5% in a year). Madison, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$854 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,386 +9%
- $268,021$293,407 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,070 +31%
- $224,337$293,407 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.
- Highland$1,540
- 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 Highland, WI rose 9.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Highland, Iowa County, Wisconsin
Highland is a village of 874 people in Iowa County. Half its households earn more than $67,344 a year and half less, against $82,182 across Iowa County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Iowa County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Highland is a small village in Iowa County, Wisconsin, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and more people live under the poverty line than you might expect for the area. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents mostly work in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in the building trades. Across Iowa County, some of the largest workplaces are Upland Hills Health, Meister Cheese Company and the Dodgeville School District. Few adults in the village hold a four-year degree, and most people drive some distance to get to work.
Things to do. Harker Creek, a river, is a short drive away. Governor Dodge State Park, a protected area, and Eagle Cave, a tourist attraction, are both a longer drive away. Little Norway, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 376households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iowa County had 10,719 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 41 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dodgeville Wwtp weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Iowa County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters311
- Upland Hills HealthCritical access hospital310FTE
- Quality Liquid Feeds - CorporateCorporate offices233
- Meister Cheese CompanyCheese manufacturing174
- Dodgeville School DistrictSchool district164FTE
- Mineral Point Unified School DistrictSchool district128FTE
- Iowa-Grant School DistrictSchool district100FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services87
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 27 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,193 people in all across the county; Highland 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 moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Iowa County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Iowa County and the Madison, WI metro.
Highland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Highland$293,407
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
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.
- Highland7
Zip codes with a Highland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Highland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.