Cost of living in Dane County
Simple answer
A 2-bedroom fair-market rent is $1,565 a month.
That HUD number covers Dane County, Wisconsin, from October 2026 through September 2027. Towns in the county can still have different rents on the ground.
- Studio
- $1,196
- 1 bed
- $1,375
- 2 bed
- $1,565
- 3 bed
- $2,047
- 4 bed
- $2,264
This county is in the Madison, WI area. BEA's 2024 price index there is 97.3 (U.S. = 100).
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Towns in this county
- Madison · 278,001 people
- Sun Prairie · 37,570 people
- Fitchburg · 32,619 people
- Middleton · 22,301 people
- Waunakee · 15,687 people
- Verona · 15,232 people
- Stoughton · 13,033 people
- Oregon · 11,547 people
- DeForest · 11,501 people
- Windsor · 9,452 people
- McFarland · 9,160 people
- Monona · 8,527 people
- Cottage Grove · 8,513 people
- Mount Horeb · 7,736 people
- Cross Plains · 4,107 people
- Marshall · 3,778 people
- Belleville · 2,579 people
- Deerfield · 2,541 people
- Shorewood Hills · 2,149 people
- Black Earth · 1,736 people
- Mazomanie · 1,694 people
- Cambridge · 1,617 people
- Maple Bluff · 1,329 people