A typical Superior home is worth roughly $274,000
Home prices around Superior have risen about 59% over the past 5 years. Builders were permitted 2 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Superior?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 3.9 years of income
Less than across Wisconsin (4.4 years). Try your own numbers below.
That’s $9K short of a typical Superior home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,150 a month here, $560 less than owning.
How Superior ranks on affordability →
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Superior’s typical property tax (1.20% 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 Superior rose 59% over the past 5 years, about the same as across Wisconsin. Last year prices rose 5.3%.
How Superior ranks on rising home prices →
Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Superior, 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 $1,270.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
How Superior ranks on rent that’s easy to afford →
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.
2 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 2 new homes in Superior in 2025, all single-family houses. Over the past 10 years, Superior has permitted 53 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Superior gained 13 residents while 36 new homes were permitted: about 0.4 new residents per new home. Building outpaced population growth, which usually means smaller households or homes used part of the year. 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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $650,000 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $353,000 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 2 | $290,000 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 | $300,000 |
| 2021 | 18 | 0 | 18 | $1.1 million |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $300,000 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 | $350,000 |
| 2016 | 25 | 1 | 24 | $1.7 million |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 4 | 2 | 2 | $760,000 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $175,000 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $100,000 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $38,000 |
| 2009 | 4 | 0 | 4 | $200,000 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $540,000 |
| 2006 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $1.4 million |
| 2005 | 4 | 2 | 2 | $505,000 |
| 2004 | 12 | 6 | 6 | $1.2 million |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2001 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $787,000 |
| 2000 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $787,000 |
How Superior ranks on new homes being built →
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
68% of Superior households own their home
Half of Superior’s homes were built before 1982.
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 Superior buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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.