Verona, Wisconsin.
Typical home $591,308 (+1.3% in a year), asking rent $1,992 (+4.5%). Madison, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,664 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,620 +1%
- $583,688$591,308 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $126,656 +27%
- $464,652$591,308 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.
- Verona$3,104
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Verona, WI rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Asking rents in Verona, WI rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Verona runs $2,546/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,625 in Jan 2025.
That is $4,538 a month against $1,992 rent: a $3,104 mortgage payment, plus $801 property tax and $633 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Verona
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$4,538
- Renting$1,992
- Mortgage only$3,104
Property tax · $801/mo 1.63% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Dane County, WI
Insurance & upkeep · $633/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Verona, Dane County, Wisconsin
Verona is a city of 14,030 people in Dane County. Half its households earn more than $119,606 a year and half less, against $89,975 across Dane County; 1% 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 professional services.
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. Verona is a small city in Dane County, with residents who are a little older than in many college-area communities and who earn more than the county as a whole. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and very few residents live below the poverty line. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is short.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing and in shops, and a good number work from home. The Verona Area School District is the largest workplace in town, with Latitude, a maker of metal shower stalls, and Zander Solutions, a waterproofing contractor, also among the biggest. Across Dane County, unemployment is low and the number of jobs has edged up a little.
Things to do. Lake Mendota, Frank W. Hoyt Park and the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum, a botanical garden, are all a short drive away, which makes the area good for walks and time by the water. The Henry Vilas Zoo is also a short drive, and Lake Monona is a longer one. Winters are cold and snowy, with a warm summer in July, so outdoor outings tend to suit the warmer months.
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- 6,451households
- 64%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 24%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 26° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 38 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Charmany Farm weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Verona
- Verona Area School DistrictSchool district830FTE
- LatitudeShower stalls, metal, manufacturing174
- Zander SolutionsWaterproofing contractors155
- Miller & Sons150
- Parisi Construction LLC (2)Curbs and street gutters, highway, road and street, construction142
- ACSConstruction management, industrial building136
- Coating Place, Inc. - VeronaPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing135
- BlainsDepartment store132
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,180 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
- 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.
Verona home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Verona$591,308
- 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 Verona listings, and the typical home goes pending in 23 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Verona25.62%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Verona23
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Verona88
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Verona33
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Verona$550,568
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Verona99.47%
Zip codes with a Verona address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Verona — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.