Boyd, Wisconsin.
Typical home $234,920 (+7.4% in a year). Eau Claire, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$685 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,120 +7%
- $218,800$234,920 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,463 +24%
- $189,457$234,920 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.
- Boyd$1,233
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Boyd, WI rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Boyd, Chippewa County, Wisconsin
Boyd is a village of 605 people in Chippewa County. Half its households earn more than $62,321 a year and half less, against $74,680 across Chippewa County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Chippewa County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Boyd is a small village in Chippewa County, with a population that stays small enough for neighbors to know one another. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit well within reach of a modest income. Household incomes run below the county's, and a fair number of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and highs staying well below freezing, while July brings warm days and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also employing many. Across Chippewa County, some of the largest workplaces are Precision Pipeline, the Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is low, though a little higher than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. The typical commute is long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Wissota State Park is a protected area on a reservoir, a longer drive away. Irvine Park is a public park a longer drive away, and the Yellow River is another river within a longer drive. Given the cold winters, most of these are best enjoyed in the warmer months.
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- 243households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chippewa County had 27,224 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°. About 52 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stanley Wwtp weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chippewa County
- Precision PipelineCompressor, metering and pumping station, gas and oil pipeline, construction881
- Chippewa Falls Area Unified School DistrictSchool district625FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters493
- TTM TechnologiesCircuit boards, printed, bare, manufacturing481
- Precision InfrastructureDistribution line, gas and oil, construction393
- Hewlett Packard EnterpriseComputer servers manufacturing369
- Ashley Furniture - ChippewaUpholstered furniture, household-type, custom, manufacturing273
- ITW Engineered FastenersMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing244
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 105 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,611 people in all across the county; Boyd has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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 high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Chippewa 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 Chippewa County and the Eau Claire, WI metro.
Boyd home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Boyd$234,920
- 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.
- Boyd5
Zip codes with a Boyd address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Boyd — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.