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Housing in Coloma

A typical Coloma home is worth roughly $122,000

Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.

Typical home value
$122K
WI $340K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,010
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$2,163
WI $3,792

What kind of housing town is Coloma?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.6 years of income

Less than across Wisconsin (4.4 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$260,000
Typical Coloma home $122K

That covers a typical Coloma home, with $138K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$820
Loan $610Tax $180Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,010 a month here, $190 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Coloma’s typical property tax (1.77% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,010

Renters already here pay a median of $871, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$720
1 bedroom$780
2 bedrooms$1,010
3 bedrooms$1,330
4 bedrooms$1,520
19%
of households rent · WI 32%
44
renter households
$871
median rent paid today · Census

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

New construction

1 new home permitted in 2025

Builders were permitted 1 new home in Coloma in 2025. Over the past 10 years, Coloma has permitted 5 homes in all.

Single-family
0123 200020052010201520202025
1
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
5
homes in the past 10 years
Homes vs. people, 2010–2020
Residents−2
New homes+6

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Coloma's population fell by 2 even though 6 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
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2026 (Jan–Aug)000—
2025110$425,000
2024000—
2023000—
2022110$195,000
2021000—
2020110$300,000
2019000—
2018220$357,000
2017000—
2016000—
2015000—
2014110$120,000
2013000—
2012000—
2011110$70,000
2010220$208,000
2009220$263,000
2008110$18,000
2007110$19,000
2006000—
2005000—
2004110$131,000
2003330$228,000
2002110$125,000
2001330$335,000
2000000—

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

The homes

81% of Coloma households own their home

Half of Coloma’s homes were built before 1967.

Owners and renters
Own 81%Rent 19%

Wisconsin: 68% own.

1967
typical home built · WI 1975
$2,163
median property tax bill · WI $3,792
1.77%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · WI 1.42%

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

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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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