Custer, Wisconsin.
Typical home $398,961 (+12.1% in a year). Stevens Point, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,214 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $43,148 +12%
- $355,812$398,961 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $111,179 +39%
- $287,782$398,961 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.
- Custer$2,094
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Custer, WI rose 12.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Custer, Portage County, Wisconsin
The Census does not count Custer on its own, so the figures here are Portage County's. Half the county's households earn more than $76,070 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 70% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 30% 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 people in Portage County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Custer is a town in Portage County, in central Wisconsin. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical household earns a comfortable income. Winters are colder than in most of the country, with snow that is heavy by most standards, and summers are warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, and others work in shops, banks, insurance or property. Across the county, unemployment is low and the number of jobs grew a little over the past year. Commutes are short for most people, and a fair number of adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Kranski Lake is in or beside town, and Dewey Marsh, a protected area, is a short drive away. The Little Eau Pleine River is a longer drive away, for those who like rivers.
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- 29,679households
- 38.0median age
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Portage County 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, 10 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. 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.
Custer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Custer$398,961
- 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.
- Custer7
Zip codes with a Custer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Custer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.