State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in Wisconsin
- Median monthly gross rent
- $1,087 ± $4 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 43.7% ± 0.5 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 20.9% ± 0.4 percentage points
How much income would keep this rent at 30%?
The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $43,480. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.
Compare with broader areas
| Area | Median gross rent ± margin | Rent burden | Severe burden |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | $1,087 ± $4 | 43.7% | 20.9% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in Wisconsin
- Adams County$828 median gross rent · 39% rent burden
- Ashland County$721 median gross rent · 37% rent burden
- Barron County$879 median gross rent · 44.8% rent burden
- Bayfield County$812 median gross rent · 40.8% rent burden
- Brown County$1,031 median gross rent · 40.9% rent burden
- Buffalo County$876 median gross rent · 36.9% rent burden
- Burnett County$771 median gross rent · 43.4% rent burden
- Calumet County$1,073 median gross rent · 38.7% rent burden
- Chippewa County$963 median gross rent · 41.8% rent burden
- Clark County$823 median gross rent · 30.5% rent burden
- Columbia County$978 median gross rent · 35.1% rent burden
- Crawford County$789 median gross rent · 31.8% rent burden
- Dane County$1,398 median gross rent · 47.8% rent burden
- Dodge County$988 median gross rent · 34.8% rent burden
- Door County$1,086 median gross rent · 43.8% rent burden
- Douglas County$909 median gross rent · 43.1% rent burden
- Dunn County$985 median gross rent · 39.2% rent burden
- Eau Claire County$1,064 median gross rent · 39.5% rent burden
- Florence County$750 median gross rent · 34.2% rent burden
- Fond du Lac County$960 median gross rent · 41.2% rent burden
- Forest County$594 median gross rent · 32.4% rent burden
- Grant County$813 median gross rent · 44.8% rent burden
- Green County$867 median gross rent · 33% rent burden
- Green Lake County$818 median gross rent · 43.9% rent burden
- Iowa County$954 median gross rent · 37.1% rent burden
- Iron County$662 median gross rent · 41.5% rent burden
- Jackson County$787 median gross rent · 38.8% rent burden
- Jefferson County$1,035 median gross rent · 38.9% rent burden
- Juneau County$879 median gross rent · 36% rent burden
- Kenosha County$1,219 median gross rent · 47.3% rent burden
- Kewaunee County$847 median gross rent · 35.3% rent burden
- La Crosse County$1,059 median gross rent · 43.6% rent burden
- Lafayette County$830 median gross rent · 37.9% rent burden
- Langlade County$702 median gross rent · 47.4% rent burden
- Lincoln County$755 median gross rent · 51.9% rent burden
- Manitowoc County$797 median gross rent · 31.1% rent burden
- Marathon County$999 median gross rent · 42% rent burden
- Marinette County$795 median gross rent · 31.4% rent burden
- Marquette County$800 median gross rent · 39.2% rent burden
- Menominee County$626 median gross rent · 43.1% rent burden
- Milwaukee County$1,101 median gross rent · 48.4% rent burden
- Monroe County$914 median gross rent · 39.6% rent burden
- Oconto County$791 median gross rent · 41.8% rent burden
- Oneida County$885 median gross rent · 43.6% rent burden
- Outagamie County$1,057 median gross rent · 36.9% rent burden
- Ozaukee County$1,154 median gross rent · 43.4% rent burden
- Pepin County$869 median gross rent · 46.2% rent burden
- Pierce County$1,044 median gross rent · 39.1% rent burden
- Polk County$957 median gross rent · 36.5% rent burden
- Portage County$940 median gross rent · 39.1% rent burden
- Price County$786 median gross rent · 36.2% rent burden
- Racine County$1,080 median gross rent · 43.1% rent burden
- Richland County$771 median gross rent · 36.7% rent burden
- Rock County$1,037 median gross rent · 42.9% rent burden
- Rusk County$874 median gross rent · 42.8% rent burden
- Sauk County$1,018 median gross rent · 39.8% rent burden
- Sawyer County$712 median gross rent · 35% rent burden
- Shawano County$821 median gross rent · 42.3% rent burden
- Sheboygan County$934 median gross rent · 34% rent burden
- St. Croix County$1,271 median gross rent · 34.4% rent burden
- Taylor County$823 median gross rent · 35% rent burden
- Trempealeau County$949 median gross rent · 35.3% rent burden
- Vernon County$836 median gross rent · 35.3% rent burden
- Vilas County$847 median gross rent · 30% rent burden
- Walworth County$1,150 median gross rent · 42.4% rent burden
- Washburn County$795 median gross rent · 49.2% rent burden
- Washington County$1,153 median gross rent · 46.4% rent burden
- Waukesha County$1,356 median gross rent · 44.8% rent burden
- Waupaca County$852 median gross rent · 45.8% rent burden
- Waushara County$796 median gross rent · 39.6% rent burden
- Winnebago County$965 median gross rent · 41.2% rent burden
- Wood County$856 median gross rent · 38% rent burden
Data and definitions
How to read the estimates
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.
- Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
- Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
- Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
- ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.
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