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Total equalized value of real estate in Buffalo County is now figured at $986,503,800, up $61.3 million, an increase of 6.63 percent. Equalized values are based on the full market value of all taxable property.
Taxable personal property value was listed at $13.16 million, up $283,000, a 2.2 percent increase, the revenue department reported.
The total equalized value for Buffalo County was $999,667,600, up $61.6 million.
Wisconsin’s equalized value statewide for real estate was up three percent, an increase of $15 billion to a total $502 billion.
Statewide land values were up $4.6 billion and improvements increased $10.9 billion. Ag forest land value gained the most, up 8 percent.
Rural towns in Buffalo County were valued at $639,614,600, an 8.54 percent increase amounting to $50.3 million.
Villages were at $43.4 million, up $173,000, a 0.4 increase, and cities in Buffalo County were equalized at $316,640,700, a 3.63 percent increase of $11 million.
According to the revenue department:
- Mondovi, the largest value municipality in Buffalo County, was valued at $142,659,600, a 1.96 percent increase of $2.73 million.
- Among the cities, Fountain City jumped the most, rising 9.43 percent. The city’s new value is $49.68 million, up $4.28 million.
- Buffalo City is now at $71.8 million, a 4.76 percent increase of $3.26 million.
- Alma is at $52.49 million, a 1.58 percent increase of $814,800.
- Cochrane equalized value is $24.27 million, a 0.50 percent increase of $119,900
- Nelson is at $19.13 million, a 0.28 percent increase of $53,300.
Among towns in the county, double digit equalized value increases were registered in the towns of Alma, Canton, Cross, Dover, Lincoln, Maxville, Modena, and Nelson.
Values by town included:
- Alma, $38.08 million, up $4.99 million, 15.09 percent
- Belvidere, $47.61 million, down $634,200, 1.31 percent decrease
- Town of Buffalo, $58.04 million, up $3.5 million, 6.42 percent
- Canton, $24.10 million, up $2.35 million, 10.84 percent
- Cross, $33.57 million, up $3.64 million, 12.17 percent
- Dover, $31.08 million, up $3.56 million, 12.94 percent
- Gilmanton, $36.16 million, up $2.69 million, 8.06 percent
- Glencoe, $32.65 million, up $1.59 million, 5.14 percent
- Lincoln, $24.46 million, up $4.34 million, 21.59 percent
- Maxville, $32.36 million, up $3.77 million, 13.20 percent
- Milton, $46.77 million, up $4.08 million, 9.57 percent;
- Modena, $28.25 million, up $2.86 million, 11.27 percent
- Mondovi, $33.81 million, up $1 million, 3.08 percent
- Montana, $27.58 million, up $1.75 million, 6.77 percent
- Naples, $40.08 million, up $2.37 million, 6.29 percent
- Nelson, $63.69 million, up $6.89 million, 12.13 percent
- Waumandee, $41.23 million, up $1.52 million, 3.84 percent.
Equalized value in Trempealeau County was up 5.12 percent and was up in La Crosse County 1.78 percent. Equalized valued of the 19-county western district in Wisconsin was up 2.76 percent.
MotherNature wrote on Sep 1, 2008 8:02 AM: