Wisconsin mortgage data

In 2025, lenders originated 53,843 home-purchase mortgages on principal residences in Wisconsin, with a median loan of $275,000. One percent of that median loan is $2,750.

That one percent is the expected agent-MLO figure: what a real-estate agent who is also the licensed loan originator on a deal would expect per median loan here at an expected ~100 bps, before any adjustment for the loan or the plan. The median total loan costs the buyer paid, $3,429, is the cost of the whole loan on the Closing Disclosure, not any one party's fee.

Home-purchase loans in 2025
53,843
Median loan
$275,000
Expected agent-MLO figure, one percent of the median loan
$2,7501what the agent who is also the loan originator would expect on the median loan at an expected ~100 bps
Median total loan costs
$3,42949,661 of 53,843 loans report costs
Lenders that originated here
617
Came through a broker or other third party
11.2%50,486 loans report the channel

By county

41 counties have a page of their own. 31 more counties had fewer than 250 loans, 4,475 in all, and are counted in the state figures above without a page of their own.

Counties in Wisconsin with at least 250 home-purchase loans in 2025
CountyLoansMedian loan
Milwaukee County6,966$255,000
Dane County5,418$365,000
Waukesha County4,229$395,000
Brown County2,576$285,000
Outagamie County2,162$265,000
Racine County1,898$265,000
Rock County1,818$245,000
Winnebago County1,759$235,000
Washington County1,474$315,000
Kenosha County1,402$275,000
Marathon County1,211$225,000
St. Croix County1,142$335,000
La Crosse County1,057$265,000
Fond du Lac County1,042$225,000
Sheboygan County961$245,000
Eau Claire County944$255,000
Ozaukee County904$375,000
Walworth County892$305,000
Dodge County831$245,000
Jefferson County799$275,000
Manitowoc County760$215,000
Columbia County653$275,000
Wood County648$195,000
Calumet County640$285,000
Sauk County610$265,000
Chippewa County572$255,000
Polk County523$255,000
Waupaca County513$205,000
Portage County478$245,000
Barron County449$205,000
Douglas County432$225,000
Monroe County406$235,000
Pierce County391$305,000
Marinette County379$175,000
Green County366$245,000
Dunn County363$225,000
Grant County358$195,000
Oconto County357$245,000
Shawano County336$205,000
Oneida County282$235,000
Clark County263$185,000

Who lends in the state

Loans by lender kind
Lender kindLoansShare
Banks, thrifts and their mortgage subsidiaries19,63336.5%
Independent mortgage companies22,00440.9%
Credit unions12,20622.7%
Loans by program
ProgramLoansShare
FHA4,6138.6%
VA3,5206.5%
Conventional and other45,71084.9%
Lenders with the most home-purchase loans in the state, 2025
LenderKindLoansShare
Fairway Independent Mort CorpIndependent mortgage company2,1764.0%
Uw Credit UnionCredit union1,8933.5%
Summit Credit UnionCredit union1,8223.4%
Associated Bank NABank1,7523.3%
Guild Mortgage CompanyIndependent mortgage company1,5242.8%

Counts of loans each lender filed under HMDA. A lender's place in this table is a count, not a rating or a recommendation.

How these numbers were made

Source: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's public HMDA Snapshot National Loan-Level Dataset for 2025, the loan-level file every covered mortgage lender files under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, as published by the FFIEC. Lender names and kinds come from the same release's transmittal sheet.

Filter: loans with action taken 1 (originated), loan purpose 1 (home purchase), occupancy type 1 (principal residence), lien status 1 (first lien), and not a reverse mortgage, not an open-end line of credit and not for a business or commercial purpose (each coded 2, or 1111 where the filer is exempt from reporting it). Refinances, second homes, investment properties, second liens, reverse mortgages, home equity lines, business-purpose loans and applications that did not close are not counted. Every figure on this page is over those loans in this state, including counties too small for a page of their own.

Rounding: the public file rounds each loan amount to the midpoint of its $10,000 band, so every amount ends in 5,000. Total loan costs are reported by most but not all lenders, and the costs median is over the loans that report them. A county gets a page at 250 or more home-purchase loans in the year, and a smaller county is counted in its state's figures. Lender kind follows the agency each lender files HMDA with, read from the name where that agency supervises more than one kind. A loan came through a broker or other third party when the lender reports the application was not submitted to it directly, which HMDA does not split further.

The same row of data is available as CSV and plain text. The data refreshes each June when the prior year's file is published. Built 2026-10-15.