Stoughton, Wisconsin.
Typical home $431,758 (+4.7% in a year), asking rent $1,628 . Madison, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,256 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,491 +5%
- $412,267$431,758 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $105,834 +32%
- $325,924$431,758 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.
- Stoughton$2,266
- 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 Stoughton, WI rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stoughton, Dane County, Wisconsin
Stoughton is a city of 13,173 people in Dane County. Half its households earn more than $79,551 a year and half less, against $89,975 across Dane County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Dane County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stoughton is a small city in Dane County, with a mix of ages and a four-year degree held by a sizable part of its adults. Incomes run below the county's overall, and more homes are lived in by their owners than rented, though renting is common too. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest and a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in town are Stoughton Trailers, the Stoughton Area School District and Walmart. A good number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. The Stoughton Opera House, a theatre in or beside town, is close at hand. Lake Kegonsa State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Madison International Speedway, a race track. For a longer drive, Lake Monona offers a lake to visit.
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- 5,494households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dane County had 361,286 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 36 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stoughton weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stoughton
- Stoughton TrailersAutomobile transporter trailers, multi-car, manufacturing584
- Stoughton Area School DistrictSchool district392FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters335
- Stoughton Hospital AssociationCritical access hospital236FTE
- Stoughton Trailers LLC Plant 1Automobile transporter trailers, multi-car, manufacturing121
- Edge OneSoftware, computer, packaged, merchant wholesalers106
- Uniroyal Engineered ProductsVinyl coated fabrics manufacturing93
- B&G FoodsMeat canning, baby food, manufacturing92
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,141 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Dane 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 Dane County and the Madison, WI metro.
Stoughton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stoughton$431,758
- 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 3 Stoughton 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.
- Stoughton31.90%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Stoughton14
- United States21
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Stoughton63
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Stoughton20
Zip codes with a Stoughton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stoughton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.