A typical Lawrence home is worth roughly $100,000
Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Lawrence?
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What it takes to buy in Lawrence
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That covers a typical Lawrence home, with $180K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $980 a month here, $340 more than owning.
How Lawrence ranks on affordability →
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Wisconsin typical property tax (1.42% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
90% of Lawrence households own their home
Half of Lawrence’s homes were built before 1985.
Wisconsin: 68% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
A two-bedroom rents for about $980
Renters already here pay a median of $970.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Rusk 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 Lawrence in 2025. Over the past 10 years, Lawrence has permitted 10 homes in all.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $100,000 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $303,000 |
| 2022 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $347,000 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $125,000 |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $95,000 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $215,000 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $215,000 |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
How Lawrence ranks on new homes being built →
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
Lawrence vs. its neighbors
Lawrence is the least expensive of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.
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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.
On the market in Lawrence
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What Lawrence 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.