Markesan, Wisconsin.
Typical home $333,181 (+9.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,077 (+160%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $29,373 +10%
- $303,809$333,181 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $102,720 +45%
- $230,461$333,181 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.
- Markesan$1,749
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Markesan, WI rose 9.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Markesan, Green Lake County, Wisconsin
Markesan is a city of 1,377 people in Green Lake County. Half its households earn more than $62,165 a year and half less, against $68,196 across Green Lake County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Green Lake County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Markesan is a small city in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, where most homes are lived in by their owners and neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a place this size. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm and comfortable, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in government. Among the largest workplaces in town are the Markesan Resident Home, a skilled nursing facility, the Markesan School District, and Sigma Engineered Solutions, a foundry. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and only a small number of people work from home. Across Green Lake County, jobs slipped a little last year, and unemployment is a touch higher than a year ago.
Things to do. Little Green Lake sits in or beside town, which makes a lake outing easy. A short drive away are Green Lake, a lake that draws visitors from around the region, and the Thrasher Opera House, a theatre. For a longer day out, Horicon Marsh is a longer drive away and is one of the best known wetland areas in the state.
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- 559households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Green Lake County had 5,835 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer 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 82° and lows near 59°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Markesan weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Markesan
- Markesan Resident HomeSkilled nursing facilities121
- Markesan School DistrictSchool district113FTE
- Sigma Engineered Solutions - ICFoundries, steel investment89
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 210 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 moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Green Lake 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 Green Lake County.
Markesan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Markesan$333,181
- 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 Markesan 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.
- Markesan25.52%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Markesan27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Markesan7
Zip codes with a Markesan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Markesan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.