A typical Oliver home is worth roughly $223,000
Home prices around Oliver have risen about 59% over the past 5 years. Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Oliver?
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What it takes to buy in Oliver
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That covers a typical Oliver home, with $56K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,150 a month here, $280 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 59% in 5 years
The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Oliver rose 59% over the past 5 years, about the same as across Wisconsin. Last year prices rose 5.3%.
Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Oliver, 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 $1,150
Renters already here pay a median of $967, 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 (Duluth, MN-WI MSA): 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 Oliver in 2025. Over the past 10 years, Oliver has permitted 12 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Oliver gained 24 residents while 15 new homes were permitted: about 1.6 new residents per new home. Building and growth moved roughly in step. Across Wisconsin: 1.3 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 1 | 1 | 0 | $367,000 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $600,000 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $500,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $60,000 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $50,000 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $271,000 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $172,000 |
| 2016 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $268,000 |
| 2015 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $450,000 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 6 | 0 | 6 | $605,000 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $206,000 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $149,000 |
| 2006 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $919,000 |
| 2005 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $869,000 |
| 2004 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $185,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
82% of Oliver households own their home
Half of Oliver’s homes were built before 1992.
Wisconsin: 68% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Oliver vs. its neighbors
Oliver 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.
Neighbors talk housing
What Oliver 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. 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.