Colfax, Wisconsin.
Typical home $324,058 (+3.6% in a year). Menomonie, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$977 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,231 +4%
- $312,826$324,058 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,507 +30%
- $248,551$324,058 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.
- Colfax$1,701
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Colfax, WI rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Colfax, Dunn County, Wisconsin
Colfax is a village of 1,182 people in Dunn County. Half its households earn more than $61,762 a year and half less, against $74,824 across Dunn County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Dunn County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dunn County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Colfax is a small village in Dunn County, Wisconsin, where households tend to earn less than across the county as a whole. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly ordinary amount over the year. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people take a moderate drive to get to work, with only a small group working from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Some of the largest workplaces in Colfax are the Colfax School District, Kyles Market and Woods Run Forest Products. Across Dunn County, unemployment is about where it was a year ago, and the number of jobs grew slightly last year.
Things to do. The Colfax Railroad Museum is in or beside town, and the Hay River is a short drive away. Hoffman Hills State Recreation Area, a protected area for walking and being outdoors, is also a short drive away. Tainter Lake, a reservoir, is just as close, and Lake Wissota State Park is a longer drive for those who want to go further.
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- 641households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Dunn County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dunn County had 18,155 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 42 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bloomer weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Colfax
- Colfax School DistrictSchool district97FTE
- Kyles MarketGrocery stores31
- Woods Run Forest ProductsWood preservation28
- Synergy Colfax C-StoreConvenience food stores23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 82 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Dunn 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 Dunn County and the Menomonie, WI metro.
Colfax home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Colfax$324,058
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Colfax listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Colfax18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Colfax6
Zip codes with a Colfax address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Colfax — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.