A typical Marietta home is worth roughly $227,000
Builders were permitted 5 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Marietta?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
What it takes to buy in Marietta
Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Marietta home, with $53K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $490 less than owning.
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.
A two-bedroom rents for about $970
Renters already here pay a median of $895.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Crawford County, WI): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
5 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 5 new homes in Marietta in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $1.8 million to build. Over the past 10 years, Marietta has permitted 28 homes in all.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 4 | 4 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| 2025 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $1.8 million |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $707,000 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $344,000 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $285,000 |
| 2020 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2019 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $812,000 |
| 2018 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $644,000 |
| 2017 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $269,000 |
| 2016 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $179,000 |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $60,000 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $60,000 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $60,000 |
| 2000 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $60,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
81% of Marietta households own their home
Half of Marietta’s homes were built before 1986.
Wisconsin: 68% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Marietta vs. its neighbors
Marietta is the 3rd least expensive of 6 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.
Compare more
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.
Neighbors talk housing
What Marietta buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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.