A typical Seneca home is worth roughly $202,000
Builders were permitted 5 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Seneca?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 2.5 years of income
Less than across Wisconsin (4.4 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Seneca home, with $96K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $980 a month here, $320 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Seneca’s 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.
91% of Seneca households own their home
Half of Seneca’s homes were built before 1985.
Wisconsin: 68% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
A two-bedroom rents for about $980
Renters already here pay a median of $810, 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 (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 Seneca in 2025, all single-family houses. That's 4.7 per 1,000 residents, about the pace of Wisconsin as a whole. Over the past 10 years, Seneca has permitted 48 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Seneca gained 66 residents while 64 new homes were permitted: about 1 new resident per new home. Building outpaced population growth, which usually means smaller households or homes used part of the year. 22% of Seneca's homes are seasonal or vacation homes, which adds housing without adding residents. 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) | 4 | 4 | 0 | $900,000 |
| 2025 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $966,000 |
| 2024 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $1.6 million |
| 2023 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $996,000 |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $460,000 |
| 2021 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| 2020 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2019 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $1.8 million |
| 2018 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $650,000 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $771,000 |
| 2016 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $933,000 |
| 2015 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| 2014 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| 2013 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $616,000 |
| 2012 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2011 | 9 | 9 | 0 | $963,000 |
| 2010 | 12 | 12 | 0 | $843,000 |
| 2009 | 11 | 11 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2008 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $850,000 |
| 2007 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| 2006 | 10 | 10 | 0 | $1.8 million |
| 2005 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| 2004 | 12 | 12 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| 2003 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $496,000 |
| 2002 | 11 | 11 | 0 | $770,000 |
| 2001 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $401,000 |
| 2000 | 15 | 15 | 0 | $1.1 million |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
Seneca vs. its neighbors
Seneca is the least expensive of 4 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.
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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.