A typical Wausau home is worth roughly $68,000
Home prices around Wausau have risen about 53% over the past 5 years.
What kind of housing town is Wausau?
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What it takes to buy in Wausau
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That covers a typical Wausau home, with $229K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,260 a month here, $860 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Florida typical property tax (0.76% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Home prices up 53% in 5 years
The federal house price index for the ZIP codes around Wausau rose 53% over the past 5 years, slower than across Florida (60%). Last year prices rose 7.1%.
Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Wausau, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,260
Renters already here pay a median of $869, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Panama City, FL HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
65% of Wausau households own their home
Half of Wausau’s homes were built before 1989.
Florida: 68% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
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What Wausau buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.