A typical Bayfield home is worth roughly $320,000
Builders were permitted 2 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Bayfield?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
1 of Bayfield’s houses are on the National Register
Half of Bayfield’s homes were built before 1965.
Wisconsin: 68% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.
A typical home costs 4.5 years of income
About the same as across Wisconsin. Try your own numbers below.
That’s $56K short of a typical Bayfield home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $1,040 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Bayfield’s typical property tax (1.24% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $970
Renters already here pay a median of $1,142.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Bayfield County, WI): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
2 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 2 new homes in Bayfield in 2025, all single-family houses. Over the past 10 years, Bayfield has permitted 18 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Bayfield gained 97 residents while 13 new homes were permitted: about 7.5 new residents per new home. Population grew faster than building, so existing homes filled up: a sign of tight supply. Across Wisconsin: 1.3 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $677,000 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $225,000 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $1.9 million |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $684,000 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 8 | 1 | 7 | $786,000 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $300,000 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $125,000 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $368,000 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $181,000 |
| 2005 | 4 | 2 | 2 | $660,000 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $256,000 |
| 2001 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $779,000 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
Neighbors talk housing
What Bayfield buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.