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Housing in Rib Falls

A typical Rib Falls home is worth roughly $299,000

Typical home value
$299K
WI $340K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$980
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$3,448
WI $3,792

What kind of housing town is Rib Falls?

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

★ What stands out · The homes

91% of Rib Falls households own their home

Half of Rib Falls’s homes were built before 1986.

Owners and renters
Own 91%Rent 9%

Wisconsin: 68% own.

1986
typical home built · WI 1975
$3,448
median property tax bill · WI $3,792
1.15%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · WI 1.42%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Affordability

A typical home costs 2.9 years of income

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

You could afford about
$391,000
Typical Rib Falls home $299K

That covers a typical Rib Falls home, with $92K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,860
Loan $1,480Tax $290Insurance $90

A two-bedroom rents for about $980 a month here, $880 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Rib Falls’s typical property tax (1.15% 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 $980

Renters already here pay a median of $675, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$680
1 bedroom$760
2 bedrooms$980
3 bedrooms$1,300
4 bedrooms$1,320
9%
of households rent · WI 32%
23
renter households
$675
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Wausau, WI MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

Next door

Rib Falls vs. its neighbors

Rib Falls is the priciest of 5 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentNew homes 2025Median income
Rib Falls$299K*—$980—$103,750
Marathon City$198K*+19.2%†$9701$89,519
Rietbrock$279K*—$1,0004$85,227
Hamburg$246K*—$1,0003$92,656
Cassel$247K*+12.8%†$9803$82,250

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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