The story of this market
The typical home in Lincoln County, Wisconsin sells for about $314,663, or $223 per square foot.
Prices are roughly flat from a year ago (0%), a market in balance. Homes take about 55 days to sell. Over the long run, values in this county have grown 88% since 2000. Last year 6 of 10 neighborhoods saw prices rise, so the story isn't the same street to street. The biggest natural hazard here is cold wave, which FEMA rates very high. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $1,014 a month.
HUD sets the fair market rent for a 2-bedroom at $1,014 a month. FEMA's National Risk Index rates overall hazard risk here as Relatively Moderate.
Price climate
Every year of price change, 2000–2025
+3.2%
2025
Each stripe is one year's median price change across the area's census tracts (FHFA repeat-sales index). Deep blue is a strong gain year, red a falling year. Best: 2022 (+14.1%). Worst: 2014 (-5.8%). Hover to read a year.
Monthly price momentum
Home values since 2015
+5.2%
WI · past 12 months
Freddie Mac House Price Index, single-family homes, monthly through 2026-08. Each line starts at 100 in January 2015, so a reading of 180 means prices are up 80% since then.
Rent benchmark
Fair market rent by size
$1,304
3-bed / month
HUD Fair Market Rents, fiscal 2027, for this county. A typical rent for a modest unit, used to set housing-voucher payments.
Neighborhood price trend
Long-run price trend, 2000–2025
+3.2%
2025 change
FHFA repeat-sales index, median of 10 census tracts in this county (2000 = 100). Bars are each year's median change.
Natural hazard exposure
The area's risk shape
63
Relatively Moderate
FEMA National Risk Index. Each spoke is a hazard ranked nationally, where 100 is the most exposed. Expected annual loss: $19,297,096.
Mortgage activity
Home lending in this county
77.5%
2018 approval rate
| Year | Applications | Loans made | Approval | Investor share | Median home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1168 | 694 | 77.5% | 4% | $160,000 |
CFPB Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records: every mortgage application reported by lenders for homes in this county. Approval rate is approved ÷ decided (withdrawn and incomplete files excluded). Investor share and home value are the median census tract.
Lincoln County, Wisconsin
Lincoln County is currently experiencing a buyer's market characterized by high inventory levels and longer days on market. Buyers are successfully negotiating prices below the original asking price, reflecting a cooling trend in the local housing sector.
No ARED distress-ledger coverage for this county yet — the foreclosure ingest rotates the national county directory, and filings appear here once the county's posted notices are read. Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.
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Median prices moved sideways 0.0% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 55 days on market with 10.4 months of supply — a slower-moving market.
0% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 92.8% of asking — demand is running ahead of supply.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 2.9% · poverty 10.6% — a stable, low-distress profile.
ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Aggregate published statistics for this county — never individual records, and never an attribute of any individual property or resident.
Lincoln County, Wisconsin — researched county-level history with a deterministic 1 / 3 / 5-year projection
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 3.8%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
No researched properties in this county yet — the property base layer populates as property research runs, and each property feeds its ZIP's roll-up.
No researched ZIP reports yet — ZIP discovery runs with the county's first refresh, and each ZIP's intel report appears here once its research lands.
The county economy is supported by healthcare and social assistance sectors, with an unemployment rate of 2.9% as of May 2026.
- The Grand Theater4.729.5 mi
- Holiday Acres Resort on Lake Thompson4.628.1 mi
- Hodag Country Festival4.727 mi
- Willow Springs Garden4.723.7 mi
- Ciào4.729.5 mi
- Council Grounds State Park4.613.1 mi
- Windmill Ice Cream Shoppe4.913.1 mi
- Kelley Castle4.715.2 mi
- Les & Jim's Lincoln Lanes4.413.5 mi
- Prairie Dells Scenic Area4.713.1 mi
- Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum4.929.5 mi
- Children's Imaginarium4.429.6 mi
- Tucknee Coffee Company4.729.6 mi
- The Hodag Store4.825.3 mi
- PPHC - Railroad Museum4.725.1 mi
- Council Grounds State Park4.613.1 mi
- SARA Park4.47 mi
- Prairie Dells Scenic Area4.713.1 mi
- River Bend Trail4.614.2 mi
- Normal Park4.613.7 mi
- Club X to C4.317.7 mi
- Edgewater Country Club4.69.3 mi
Theme parks, venues, golf, airports, museums, water and shopping across the area from Google Maps, ranked by popularity within the radius shown.
Data retrieved from Census Reporter and US Census Bureau QuickFacts.