Monticello, Wisconsin.
Typical home $346,358 (+6.9% in a year). Madison, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,066 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,400 +7%
- $323,958$346,358 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $94,938 +38%
- $251,420$346,358 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.
- Monticello$1,818
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Monticello, WI rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Monticello, Green County, Wisconsin
Monticello is a village of 1,192 people in Green County. Half its households earn more than $75,833 a year and half less, against $82,852 across Green County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Monticello is a small village in Green County, Wisconsin, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes are somewhat below the county's, and typical home values are well within reach of a Wisconsin village budget only for those with steady earnings. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and July the warmest, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in shops. Some of the largest workplaces in Monticello are Family Fresh Pack, which makes food packaging machinery, Sabrosura Foods, a cheese maker, and the Monticello School District. Unemployment across Green County is low and close to where it stood a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs than the year before. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, New Glarus Woods State Park and Albany Wildlife Area are both protected areas a short drive away, and the Little Sugar River, also a short drive away, runs nearby. Library Park is a park close by, a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the lakes and museums around Madison.
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- 574households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 8%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, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Monticello
- Family Fresh PackFood packaging machinery manufacturing259
- Sabrosura Foods - MonticelloCheese manufacturing102
- Monticello School DistrictSchool district53FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 361 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 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.
Monticello home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Monticello$346,358
- 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.
- Monticello7
Zip codes with a Monticello address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Monticello — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.