A typical Rib Lake home is worth roughly $99,000
Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Rib Lake?
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A typical home costs 1.7 years of income
Less than across Wisconsin (4.4 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Rib Lake home, with $97K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $280 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Rib Lake’s typical property tax (1.99% 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 $732, 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 (Price 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 Rib Lake in 2025. Over the past 10 years, Rib Lake has permitted 6 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Rib Lake gained 25 residents while 1 new home was permitted: about 25 new residents per new home. Population grew faster than building, so existing homes filled up: a sign of tight supply. 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 | $238,000 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $225,000 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $475,000 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $76,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $305,000 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $140,000 |
| 2009 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $509,000 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $90,000 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $109,000 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | 12 | 4 | 8 | $942,000 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $100,000 |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $180,000 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $53,000 |
| 2001 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $222,000 |
| 2000 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $341,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
65% of Rib Lake households own their home
Half of Rib Lake’s homes were built before 1961.
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 Rib Lake 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.