A typical Oakdale home is worth roughly $178,000
Home prices around Oakdale have risen about 50% over the past 5 years. No new homes were permitted in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Oakdale?
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What it takes to buy in Oakdale
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That covers a typical Oakdale home, with $101K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,050 a month here, $100 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.
Home prices up 50% in 5 years
The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Oakdale rose 50% over the past 5 years, slower than across Wisconsin (57%). Last year prices rose 2.5%.
Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Oakdale, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,050
Renters already here pay a median of $870, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Monroe County, WI): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
No new homes permitted in 2025
No permits for new homes were issued in Oakdale in 2025. The last year with any was 2024 (1 new home).
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 1 | 1 | 0 | $240,000 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $240,000 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 3 | 1 | 2 | $435,000 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $298,000 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $160,000 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $160,000 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $100,000 |
| 2004 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $216,000 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $240,000 |
| 2002 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $204,000 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $100,000 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $174,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
80% of Oakdale households own their home
Half of Oakdale’s homes were built before 1993.
Wisconsin: 68% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Neighbors talk housing
What Oakdale 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. 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.