Windsor homeowners paid property taxes equal to 1.4% of their properties’ values in the fourth quarter of 2025—over 1.6 times higher than the national average—according to BlockShopper.com.
Data from the 30 residential property sales in Windsor during the same quarter show a median sales price of $479,637. The city’s median property tax bill for 2025 was $6,807, representing 1.4% of the median home value taxed that year.
The average effective property tax rate nationwide stood at 0.888% in 2024.
Within Dane County, Dane reported the highest effective property tax rate.
This article determines Windsor’s 2025 effective property tax rate by applying estimated inflation adjustments to 2024 county tax records. Actual rates may vary slightly in some instances.
U.S. home prices continued an upward trend in 2025, with the national median home price hitting roughly $447,000 in June—a 1.13% rise from the year before, according to Redfin. Redfin data also indicates a wide gap between supply and demand: there were 36% more sellers than buyers, translating to 508,715 additional homes on the market. For Redfin, a balanced market has no more than a 10% variation between the number of buyers and sellers.
The table below provides a comparison of Dane and selected other cities in Dane County by median effective property tax rate, based on sales and property tax data from the fourth quarter of 2025.
| City | Q4 2025 Sales | Q4 2025 Median Price | Median tax 2025 | Effective tax rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dane | 10 | $250,000 | $5,872 | 2.3% |
| Marshall | 11 | $260,000 | $4,989 | 1.9% |
| Sun Prairie | 161 | $370,000 | $6,936 | 1.9% |
| Belleville | 8 | $284,757 | $5,315 | 1.9% |
| Fitchburg | 114 | $425,000 | $7,819 | 1.8% |
| Cottage Grove | 45 | $390,000 | $7,083 | 1.8% |
| Verona | 72 | $419,950 | $7,247 | 1.7% |
| Madison | 1,125 | $415,000 | $6,874 | 1.7% |
| Deerfield | 20 | $272,500 | $4,546 | 1.7% |
| Cambridge | 10 | $328,500 | $5,333 | 1.6% |
| Middleton | 91 | $499,000 | $7,912 | 1.6% |
| Maple Bluff | 10 | $965,600 | $15,145 | 1.6% |
| Stoughton | 82 | $358,000 | $5,568 | 1.6% |
| Mount Horeb | 31 | $407,099 | $6,125 | 1.5% |
| McFarland | 42 | $443,100 | $6,840 | 1.5% |
| Cross Plains | 19 | $400,000 | $5,831 | 1.5% |
| Mazomanie | 11 | $300,000 | $4,468 | 1.5% |
| Waunakee | 78 | $525,100 | $7,806 | 1.5% |
| Windsor | 30 | $479,637 | $6,807 | 1.4% |
| DeForest | 62 | $445,000 | $6,307 | 1.4% |
| Shorewood Hills | 6 | $1,115,000 | $15,915 | 1.4% |
| Black Earth | 10 | $325,830 | $4,650 | 1.4% |
| Brooklyn | 7 | $395,000 | $5,591 | 1.4% |
| Blue Mounds | 3 | $380,000 | $5,498 | 1.4% |
| Oregon | 71 | $484,844 | $6,709 | 1.4% |