Downing, Wisconsin.
Typical home $291,139 (+9.9% in a year). Menomonie, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$897 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,122 +10%
- $265,017$291,139 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,707 +33%
- $219,431$291,139 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.
- Downing$1,528
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Downing, WI rose 9.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Downing, Dunn County, Wisconsin
Downing is a village of 234 people in Dunn County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Downing is a small village in Dunn County, Wisconsin, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Residents tend to be somewhat older than in many places, fewer hold a four-year degree than across much of the country, and the share living below the poverty line is low. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; precipitation falls through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Dunn County, the largest workplaces include the University of Wisconsin-Stout, Walmart and the Menomonie Area School District. Unemployment in the county is low and has held steady over the past year, the number of jobs there has edged up, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, with only a few people working from home.
Things to do. The closest outdoor spot is Big Beaver Creek Wildlife Area, a protected area a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Willow River State Park, another protected area, and to Tainter Lake, a reservoir. For something indoors, the Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts is a theatre, also a longer drive away.
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- 99households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 5%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 20° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 43 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Baldwin weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dunn County
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,119
- University of Wisconsin-StoutUniversity or college1,051
- 3M Company506
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters456
- Andersen DistributionScreens, window and door, merchant wholesalers409
- Menomonie Area School DistrictSchool district404FTE
- Mchs-red CedarCritical access hospital312FTE
- Phillips-MedisizeInstruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing283
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 55 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,889 people in all across the county; Downing has none of its own. 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
- 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.
Downing home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Downing$291,139
- 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.
Zip codes with a Downing address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Downing — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.