A typical Webster home is worth roughly $225,000
Builders were permitted 5 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Webster?
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 $8K short of a typical Webster home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,010 a month here, $420 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Webster’s typical property tax (1.32% 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 $1,010
Renters already here pay a median of $833, 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 (Vernon County, WI HUD Metro FMR Area): 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 Webster in 2025, all single-family houses. Over the past 10 years, Webster has permitted 43 homes in all.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 5 | 5 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| 2025 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $780,000 |
| 2024 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $1.8 million |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $2.2 million |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $490,000 |
| 2020 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $1.4 million |
| 2019 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $775,000 |
| 2018 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $920,000 |
| 2017 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $285,000 |
| 2016 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $285,000 |
| 2015 | 9 | 9 | 0 | $403,000 |
| 2014 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $385,000 |
| 2013 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $150,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
84% of Webster households own their home
Half of Webster’s homes were built before 1984.
Wisconsin: 68% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Webster vs. its neighbors
Webster is the least expensive of 3 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.
Neighbors talk housing
What Webster 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. 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.