Midwest · Wisconsin · pop 272K
Madison, WI
Good match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in WI, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,111 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,207 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,530 left over.
The job market looks healthy: 2.3% unemployment and 1.6% job growth over the past year.
Reported crime rates sit below most cities in this dataset.
The Madison fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,581/mo
Typical rent
$1,420/mo
Home value ÷ income
5.0×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,330/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,420/mo
- Median home value
- $380,000
- Median household income
- $76,000
- Population
- 272,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 2.3%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 1.6%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 380
- Property crime rate
- 2,400
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 82°F
- Avg. winter low
- 12°F
- Sunny days / year
- 190
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈4/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈38/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈5/yr
- Annual rain
- 37"
- Annual snow
- 47"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+53
- Int'l airport
- ≈125 mi
- Walkability
- 49/100
- Disaster risk
- 34/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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