A typical Turtle Lake home is worth roughly $260,000
What kind of housing town is Turtle Lake?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 3 years of income
Less than across Wisconsin (4.4 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Turtle Lake home, with $66K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,000 a month here, $600 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Turtle Lake’s typical property tax (1.11% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
93% of Turtle Lake households own their home
Half of Turtle Lake’s homes were built before 1975.
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 $900, 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 (Barron County, WI): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
Turtle Lake vs. its neighbors
Turtle Lake is the 3rd least expensive of 5 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.
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| Town | Typical value | 1-yr change | 2-bed rent | New homes 2025 | Median income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turtle Lake | $260K* | — | $1,000 | — | $85,758 |
| Clayton | $301K* | — | $1,090 | — | $77,500 |
| Arland | $196K* | — | $980 | 0 | $70,865 |
| Clayton | $282K | +1.8% | $1,000 | 0 | $58,750 |
| Vance Creek | — | — | $1,100 | 2 | $58,750 |
| Almena | $245K | +7.4% | $990 | — | $79,583 |
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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What Turtle 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. 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.