Monroe, Wisconsin.
Typical home $280,629 (+4.4% in a year). Madison, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$804 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,922 +4%
- $268,707$280,629 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,447 +27%
- $221,183$280,629 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.
- Monroe$1,473
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Monroe, WI rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Monroe, Green County, Wisconsin
Monroe is a city of 10,661 people in Green County. Half its households earn more than $69,334 a year and half less, against $82,852 across Green County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Green County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Monroe is a small city and the seat of Green County, in the southern part of Wisconsin. Its residents are older than in much of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number are rented. Incomes run below those of the county as a whole, and winters are cold and snowy, with the coldest weather in January and warm summers peaking in July.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Monroe are Colony Brands, a mail-order business, Monroe Clinic, a general hospital, and Aebi-Schmidt, which assembles truck bodies. Unemployment in Green County is low and close to where it stood a year earlier, and most people have a fairly short commute, with a modest number working from home.
Things to do. Cadiz Springs State Recreation Area, a protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to New Glarus Woods State Park, another protected area, and to the Sugar River, a river that suits a day by the water. Library Park is also on the list of nearby places, though it lies a longer drive away.
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- 5,157households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Green County had 15,754 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 63°. About 42 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Monroe Wwtp weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Monroe
- SC Data CenterMail-order houses1,258
- Colony BrandsMail-order houses827
- Monroe ClinicGeneral hospital808FTE
- Aebi-SchmidtTruck bodies assembling on purchased chassis511
- Monroe School DistrictSchool district319FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters295
- Sabrosura Foods - MonroeCheese manufacturing214
- Alpine Slicing and Cheese ConversionCheese, cottage, manufacturing160
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,556 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
- 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 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 County and the Madison, WI metro.
Monroe home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Monroe$280,629
- 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 5 Monroe listings, and the typical home goes pending in 14 days — 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.
- Monroe19.70%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Monroe14
- United States21
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Monroe48
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Monroe21
Zip codes with a Monroe address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Monroe — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.