Poynette, Wisconsin.
Typical home $406,974 (+4.9% in a year). Madison, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,221 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,845 +5%
- $388,128$406,974 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $102,940 +34%
- $304,034$406,974 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.
- Poynette$2,136
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Poynette, WI rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Poynette, Columbia County, Wisconsin
Poynette is a village of 2,590 people in Columbia County. Half its households earn more than $93,500 a year and half less, against $85,351 across Columbia County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Columbia County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Poynette is a small village where residents tend to be older than in many American communities, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, and a smaller share of people live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and banks, insurance and property also providing many jobs. Across Columbia County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, the Aprilaire plant in Poynette and Divine Savior Hospital. A fairly long commute is typical, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Goeres Park is a short drive away, as is the Baraboo River, which suits a quiet day by the water. For a longer outing, Devil's Lake State Park is a protected area built around a lake, and the International Crane Foundation is a zoo a longer drive away.
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- 1,134households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Columbia County had 21,764 jobs in 2025, 0.9% 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 60°. About 43 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Arlington weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Columbia County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters367
- Research Products Corporation - Aprilaire - Poynette PlantAir purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing316
- American Packaging Corporation - ColumbusPrint shops, gravure309
- Portage Community School DistrictSchool district304FTE
- Divine Savior HospitalGeneral hospital280FTE
- Prairie Ridge HealthCritical access hospital274FTE
- Saint-GobainRubber goods, mechanical, manufacturing268
- Associated Milk ProducersCheese manufacturing255
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 72 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,677 people in all across the county; Poynette has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Columbia County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Columbia County and the Madison, WI metro.
Poynette home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Poynette$406,974
- 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 Poynette 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.
- Poynette26.56%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Poynette27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Poynette9
Zip codes with a Poynette address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Poynette — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.