A typical Benton home is worth roughly $157,000
Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Benton?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 1.9 years of income
Less than across Wisconsin (4.4 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Benton home, with $131K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,060 a month here, $30 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Benton’s typical property tax (1.56% 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 $1,060
Renters already here pay a median of $889, 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 (Lafayette County, WI): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
1 new home permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 1 new home in Benton in 2025. That's 0.9 per 1,000 residents, slower than across Wisconsin (4.3). Over the past 10 years, Benton has permitted 28 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Benton's population fell by 27 even though 12 new homes were permitted. Homes are holding fewer people: households are getting smaller, or more homes are used part of the year. 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $342,000 |
| 2024 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $1 million |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $606,000 |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $547,000 |
| 2021 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2020 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $835,000 |
| 2019 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2018 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2017 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $625,000 |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $223,000 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $120,000 |
| 2007 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $260,000 |
| 2006 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $996,000 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $193,000 |
| 2003 | 6 | 4 | 2 | $682,000 |
| 2002 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $389,000 |
| 2001 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $737,000 |
| 2000 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $461,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
80% of Benton households own their home
Half of Benton’s homes were built before 1967.
Wisconsin: 68% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
On the market in Benton
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Neighbors talk housing
What Benton 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. 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.