Cornell, Wisconsin.
Typical home $229,409 (+4.0% in a year). Eau Claire, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$665 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,720 +4%
- $220,689$229,409 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,843 +26%
- $182,566$229,409 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.
- Cornell$1,204
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Cornell, WI rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cornell, Chippewa County, Wisconsin
Cornell is a city of 1,453 people in Chippewa County. Half its households earn more than $55,192 a year and half less, against $74,680 across Chippewa County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cornell is a small city on the Chippewa River in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values sit in a moderate range for the area. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, and summers turn warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also employing many people. Among the largest workplaces in Cornell are Nshc, which runs nursing homes, the Cornell School District, and Wisconsin Truss, a truss manufacturer. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical, and a typical commute is a fairly long one, with only a few people working from home.
Things to do. Brunet Island State Park is a protected area in or beside town, a natural place for walking and being outdoors. A short drive away are the Jump River and Dorothy Lake State Natural Area, a lake set aside for its natural character. Farther afield, the Flambeau River and Lake Wissota State Park offer more water and woods for a longer outing.
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- 592households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 6%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 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Holcombe weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cornell
- NshcNursing homes65
- Cornell School DistrictSchool district55FTE
- Wisconsin TrussTruss manufacturing21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 86 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
- 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.
Cornell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cornell$229,409
- 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.
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.
- Cornell14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cornell5
Zip codes with a Cornell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cornell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.