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Housing in Douglas

A typical Douglas home is worth roughly $284,000

Typical home value
$284K
WI $340K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,070
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$2,817
WI $3,792

What kind of housing town is Douglas?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 3.5 years of income

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

You could afford about
$311,000
Typical Douglas home $284K

That covers a typical Douglas home, with $27K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,720
Loan $1,410Tax $230Insurance $80

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,070 a month here, $650 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Douglas’s typical property tax (0.99% 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 $1,070

Renters already here pay a median of $1,026.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$770
1 bedroom$860
2 bedrooms$1,070
3 bedrooms$1,380
4 bedrooms$1,520
14%
of households rent · WI 32%
40
renter households
$1,026
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Marquette 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

86% of Douglas households own their home

Half of Douglas’s homes were built before 1976.

Owners and renters
Own 86%Rent 14%

Wisconsin: 68% own.

1976
typical home built · WI 1975
$2,817
median property tax bill · WI $3,792
0.99%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · WI 1.42%
17%
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

Douglas vs. its neighbors

Douglas is the priciest of 6 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentNew homes 2008Median income
Douglas$284K*—$1,070—$81,250
Moundville$252K*—$1,020—$71,125
New Haven$208K*+7.7%†$1,150—$68,897
Lewiston$244K*+6.4%†$1,210—$90,852
Briggsville$282K+6.9%$1,180—$67,344
Jackson$203K*+6.7%†$1,1500$59,500

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. 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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