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Median Home Price in Cottage Grove, WI

The median home value in Cottage Grove, WI is $474,163, up 3.43% from a year earlier.

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City housing-data period: September 2026. City source retrieval/check time (UTC) is recorded in the feed's updated field when available, not in the housing-data period.

Checked daily for new monthly Zillow releases, not new daily prices. Income and crime data are updated separately, not by the daily housing-data check. Unavailable means observation dates are missing or invalid.

Median Home Value

$474,163

Year-over-Year

+3.43%

Population

9,518

Home value history

The typical home value decreased by 1.5%, from $481,297 in May 2026 to $474,163 in Sep 2026.

Monthly Zillow Home Value Index snapshots retained by HomePriceMap. A short history is shown now and grows automatically as each new monthly release arrives.

Cottage Grove, WI monthly home value history
Month	Typical home value	Year-over-year change
May 2026	$481,297	+2.9%
Jun 2026	$482,616	+2.8%
Jul 2026	$483,111	+2.8%
Aug 2026	$479,169	+3.1%
Sep 2026	$474,163	+3.4%

Cottage Grove ranks #22 of 121 Wisconsin cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 37.6% above the state's city median of $344,631. It sits in Dane County, where the county-wide median is $467,783.

Crime in Cottage Grove

Cottage Grove police recorded a violent crime rate of 116 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 452 per 100,000.

Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).

Common questions about Cottage Grove

What is the average home price in Cottage Grove, WI?

People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Cottage Grove, that value is $474,163. That's up 3.43% from a year earlier. It is about 37.6% above the typical Wisconsin city tracked here.

Is Cottage Grove expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in Cottage Grove are more expensive than Dane County as a whole, where the median is $467,783 — a difference of about 1.4%.

Is Cottage Grove a safe place to live?

Cottage Grove police reported 116 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 9,518. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.