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Housing in Madison

A typical Madison home is worth roughly $108,000

No new homes were permitted in 2025.

Typical home value
$108K
NY $527K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,270
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,893
NY $6,582

What kind of housing town is Madison?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Madison

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You could afford about
$307,000
Typical Madison home $108K

That covers a typical Madison home, with $199K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$700
Loan $530Tax $140Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,270 a month here, $570 more than owning.

How Madison ranks on affordability →

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the New York typical property tax (1.55% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

63% of Madison households own their home

Half of Madison’s homes were built before 1944.

Owners and renters
Own 63%Rent 37%

New York: 54% own.

1944
typical home built · NY 1959
$1,893
median property tax bill · NY $6,582
3%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,270

Renters already here pay a median of $942, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$930
1 bedroom$1,010
2 bedrooms$1,270
3 bedrooms$1,530
4 bedrooms$1,710
37%
of households rent · NY 46%
51
renter households
$942
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Syracuse, NY MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2025

No permits for new homes were issued in Madison in 2025. The last year with any was 2004 (1 new home).

Single-family
01 200320052010201520202025
0
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
0
homes in the past 10 years
Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2026 (Jan–Aug)000—
2025000—
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2021000—
2020000—
2019000—
2018000—
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2016000—
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2011000—
2010000—
2009000—
2008000—
2007000—
2006000—
2005000—
2004110$150,000
2003110$30,000

How Madison ranks on new homes being built →

Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

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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. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. 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.

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