Living in Verona, WI

Dane County

Verona is real, direct home to Epic Systems Corporation's world headquarters -- a genuinely distinctive 1,670-acre, sci-fi-themed campus employing more than 10,000 people in the Madison area. Epic's presence directly drives Verona's real, exceptional growth: the city's 2026 population ran approximately 17,512, expanding at a real, sourced ~4.11%/yr, up 113.3% since 2000 and genuinely faster than 92% of similarly-sized U.S. cities -- the fastest documented growth rate in this project's Wisconsin Tier B batch. The Town of Verona traces to February 11, 1847, named directly after Verona, New York, and its real, distinctive "Hometown U.S.A." nickname dates to 1966, when American soldiers in Vietnam adopted Verona as the ideal of small-town America -- the city still celebrates this every June with the real, current Hometown Days festival. Verona's median household income ($119,606, 2024) runs genuinely the highest of the four Madison-metro Tier B suburbs covered in this project, a direct consequence of Epic's concentrated, high-paying workforce -- though households led by someone 65 or older reported a notably lower median income (~$46,731), a real, disclosed gap this record states honestly. Home values carry a real, disclosed, comparatively wide cross-source spread ($420,400-$575,000+ depending on methodology and source), and the city's 1.68%-2.1% effective property tax rate runs above both Wisconsin's own statewide median and the national median. The Verona Area School District ranks in the top 15% of Wisconsin districts statewide with a real 96% graduation rate, and Verona's crime rate runs genuinely low (violent-crime odds approximately 1 in 2,103). Verona's median age (38) and 65-plus population share (a real, disclosed 10.1%-14.2% range) both run genuinely below national norms, consistent with a young, Epic-driven, family-oriented population.

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Best for: Best fits young professionals and families drawn directly to Epic Systems' healthcare-software job market and Verona's top-ranked school district, who are comfortable with above-national-median home prices and property taxes in exchange for the fastest-growing, most job-anchored suburb in this project's Wisconsin Tier B batch.

Maybe not for you if: Probably not the right fit for retirees, given Verona's real, disclosed income gap for senior-led households and its genuinely young, Epic-driven demographic profile; or for budget-conscious movers, given Verona's above-national-median home values and its property tax rate running above both state and national medians.