Lancaster, Wisconsin.
Typical home $227,548 (+5.4% in a year). Platteville, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$629 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,754 +5%
- $215,794$227,548 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,709 +27%
- $178,839$227,548 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.
- Lancaster$1,194
- 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 Lancaster, WI rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lancaster, Grant County, Wisconsin
Lancaster is a city of 3,907 people in Grant County. Half its households earn more than $84,302 a year and half less, against $66,858 across Grant County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Grant County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lancaster is a small city in Grant County, Wisconsin, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a town of this size. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical drive to work is short. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Lancaster are Grant Regional Health Center, the Lancaster Community School District and Foremost Farms USA, a cheese maker. Unemployment in Grant County is low and unchanged from a year earlier, though the county has a few fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Effigy Mounds National Monument, an archaeological site a longer drive away. Also a longer drive away is Wyalusing State Park, another archaeological site, and the Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, a botanical garden. Grant River, a river, is in the same range for anyone who likes to be near water.
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- 1,654households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grant County had 17,152 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 62°. About 37 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lancaster Wsw weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lancaster
- Grant Regional Health CenterCritical access hospital209FTE
- Lancaster Community School DistrictSchool district151FTE
- SkylineManufactured homes manufacturing115
- Southwest Opportunities CenterSheltered workshops87
- Foremost Farms USA (Lancaster, WI)Cheese manufacturing69
- Piggly Wiggly MidwestGrocery stores51
- LancasterMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 342 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Grant 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 Grant County and the Platteville, WI metro.
Lancaster home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lancaster$227,548
- 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.
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.
- Lancaster8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Lancaster address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lancaster — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.