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Housing in Dellwood

A typical Dellwood home is worth roughly $201,000

Home prices around Dellwood have risen about 81% over the past 5 years.

Typical home value
$201K
▲ 10.5% in a year · WI $267K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,010
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,968
WI $3,792
What stands out · In brief

What Dellwood’s housing numbers say

About half of Dellwood’s homes are second homes

59% of Dellwood’s homes are seasonal or vacation homes, empty for much of the year. Year-round rentals are scarce: there are 22 renter households. The homes ↓

Prices rose faster than Wisconsin’s over five years

There’s no Zillow index for Dellwood, so the page uses the federal house price index for the ZIP codes around it, which follows repeat sales of the same homes. It rose 81% over five years, against 57% across Wisconsin. Price trend ↓

Written from the data on this page. There’s no Zillow index for Dellwood, so the typical value is the Census median; incomes, rents paid, taxes and ownership come from the Census American Community Survey, which has wide margins in a place this size.

Price trend

Home prices up 81% in 5 years

The federal house price index for the ZIP codes around Dellwood rose 81% over the past 5 years, faster than across Wisconsin (57%). Last year prices rose 11%.

Dellwood areaWisconsin
0%+50%+100%+150%+200%200020052010201520202025
+11%
past year
+81%
past 5 years
+135%
past 10 years

Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Dellwood, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.

Affordability

A typical home costs 4.6 years of income

More than across Wisconsin (3.4 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$169,000
Typical Dellwood home $201K

That’s $31K short of a typical Dellwood home.

The typical home, each month
$1,220
Loan $990Tax $160Insurance $60

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,010 a month here, $210 less than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Dellwood’s typical property tax (0.98% 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

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$800
1 bedroom$850
2 bedrooms$1,010
3 bedrooms$1,290
4 bedrooms$1,340
8%
of households rent · WI 32%
22
renter households

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.

The homes

92% of Dellwood households own their home

Half of Dellwood’s homes were built before 1978.

Owners and renters
Own 92%Rent 8%

Wisconsin: 68% own.

1978
typical home built · WI 1975
$1,968
median property tax bill · WI $3,792
0.98%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · WI 1.42%
59%
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.

Next door

Dellwood vs. its neighbors

Dellwood is the least expensive of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentNew homes 2025Median income
Dellwood$201K*+10.5%†$1,010—$43,750
Quincy$202K*+1.5%†$1,01011$42,448
Strongs Prairie$216K*—$1,00016$65,500

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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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.

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