A typical Siren home is worth roughly $190,000
Home prices around Siren have risen about 67% over the past 5 years. Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Siren?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 3.8 years of income
Less than across Wisconsin (4.4 years). Try your own numbers below.
That’s $5K short of a typical Siren home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,000 a month here, $200 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Siren’s typical property tax (1.25% 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 67% in 5 years
The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Siren rose 67% over the past 5 years, faster than across Wisconsin (57%). Last year prices rose 7.1%.
Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Siren, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.
70% of Siren households own their home
Half of Siren’s homes were built before 1974.
Wisconsin: 68% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,000
Renters already here pay a median of $731, 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 (Burnett 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 Siren in 2025. Over the past 10 years, Siren has permitted 61 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Siren gained 18 residents while 6 new homes were permitted: about 3 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) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $450,000 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $500,000 |
| 2023 | 26 | 2 | 24 | $2.6 million |
| 2022 | 25 | 1 | 24 | $2.4 million |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $190,000 |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $475,000 |
| 2019 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $560,000 |
| 2018 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $500,000 |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $230,000 |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $70,000 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $75,000 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $100,000 |
| 2007 | 17 | 3 | 14 | $1.9 million |
| 2006 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $425,000 |
| 2005 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $675,000 |
| 2004 | 11 | 9 | 2 | $1.6 million |
| 2003 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $400,000 |
| 2002 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $925,000 |
| 2001 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $750,000 |
| 2000 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $480,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
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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.