Chili, Wisconsin.
Typical home $252,344 (+9.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$681 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,257 +9%
- $231,087$252,344 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,986 +22%
- $206,358$252,344 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.
- Chili$1,324
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Chili, WI rose 9.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chili, Clark County, Wisconsin
Chili, in Clark County, had 205 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Clark County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clark County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chili is a very small farming community in Clark County, Wisconsin, where neighbors are few and the land is mostly open. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July; precipitation arrives as a mix of rain and melted snow through the year. Homes here are valued at less than many people would expect to pay in larger towns, and household incomes across Clark County run a little below the state's.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, and in shops. Across Clark County, some of the largest workplaces are Grassland Dairy Products, a butter maker, Cummins Filtration, which makes filters for vehicles, and WB Manufacturing, a furniture maker. Commutes are short, and unemployment across the county is low and close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. The Black River, Beaver Creek and Marshfield Motor Speedway are all a short drive away, offering water to fish or paddle and a race track for summer evenings. A longer drive brings you to Black River State Forest, a large protected area with woods to walk through. Foxfire Botanical Gardens, also a longer drive away, is a garden worth a day's outing.
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- 18 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Clark County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clark County had 11,428 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marshfield Municipal Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clark County
- Grassland Dairy ProductsButter manufacturing710
- Cummins FiltrationFilters automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing393
- WB ManufacturingFurniture, factory-type, manufacturing330
- Abbyland Pork PackSlaughtering, custom324
- Haas Son'sSewer main, pipe and connection, construction305
- Land O Lakes SpencerCheese, imitation or substitute, manufacturing286
- Cavco Industries321991162
- MMC-NeillsvilleHospitals, general medical and surgical148
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,941 people in all across the county; Chili has one of its own. 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Clark 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 Clark County.
Chili home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chili$252,344
- 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.
- Chili5
Zip codes with a Chili address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chili — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.