Amherst Junction, Wisconsin.
Typical home $377,633 (+18.2% in a year). Stevens Point, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,160 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $58,280 +18%
- $319,353$377,633 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $118,224 +46%
- $259,409$377,633 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Amherst Junction$1,982
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Amherst Junction, WI rose 18.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Amherst Junction, Portage County, Wisconsin
Amherst Junction is a village of 383 people in Portage County. Half its households earn more than $106,250 a year and half less, against $76,070 across Portage County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Portage County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Amherst Junction is a very small village where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and the typical home is worth a good deal more than in many small Wisconsin communities. Households here earn well above what is typical across Portage County, and very few people live below the poverty line. The population skews older than the national picture. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm in July and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, banking and insurance, and shops also employing many. Across Portage County, the largest workplaces are the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, the Stevens Point Area Public School District and Aspirus Stevens Point Hospital. A typical trip to work is fairly short, and a fair number of people work from home. Unemployment in the county is low, and the county has added a small number of jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Water is the main draw. Lake Emily and Meyers Lake are in or beside town, along with the Waupaca River and the Tomorrow River, and Lake Lime and Thomas Lake are a short drive away. For a longer outing, Hartman Creek State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 125households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Portage County had 33,442 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 60°. About 49 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stevens Pt weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Portage County
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens PointUniversity or college1,192
- Stevens Point Area Public School DistrictSchool district1,008FTE
- Aspirus Stevens Point HospitalGeneral hospital476FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters475
- Ki Mobility - Headquarters (Stevens Point, WI)Wheelchairs manufacturing402
- McCain Foods, USAFrozen food entrees, packaged, manufacturing300
- Monogram AppetizersFrozen specialties, nec285
- Fahrner Asphalt SealersPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction268
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 84 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,304 people in all across the county; Amherst Junction has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Portage County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Portage County and the Stevens Point, WI metro.
Amherst Junction home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Amherst Junction$377,633
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Amherst Junction6
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Amherst Junction address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Amherst Junction — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.