Eden, Wisconsin.
Typical home $377,153 (+6.2% in a year). Fond du Lac, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,126 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,145 +6%
- $355,008$377,153 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $98,828 +36%
- $278,325$377,153 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.
- Eden$1,980
- 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 Eden, WI rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eden, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
Eden is a village of 884 people in Fond du Lac County. Half its households earn more than $69,167 a year and half less, against $74,275 across Fond du Lac County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Fond du Lac County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fond du Lac 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eden is a small village in Fond du Lac County, home to fewer people than most towns of its kind and a good deal younger than many in the area. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a typical home is valued well above what incomes alone might suggest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; precipitation falls as both rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. A four-year degree is held by a minority of adults, and few people work from home, so most head out to a job each day on a commute of moderate length. Across Fond du Lac County, some of the largest workplaces are Seneca Foods Corporation's Ripon operations, Mercury Marine's Fond du Lac site, and Alliance Laundry Systems' main plant.
Things to do. The Milwaukee River and the Fond du Lac River are both a short drive away and make easy outings for anyone who likes being near water. Farther afield, Lake Winnebago is a larger lake reached by a longer drive, and Kettle Moraine State Forest is a protected area of woods and trails, also a longer drive away. The EAA Aviation Museum is another longer trip, for those who enjoy museums.
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- 314households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Fond du Lac County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fond du Lac County had 44,880 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 63°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fond Du Lac Southwest weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fond du Lac County
- Mercury Marine Fond du LacAdminstration2,941
- Alliance Laundry Systems - Plant 1Floor sanding, washing, and polishing machines, commercial-type, manufacturing1,901
- Ahern Fond du Lac - CorporatePlumbing and heating contractors1,850
- St. Agnes HospitalGeneral hospital1,097FTE
- Fond du Lac School DistrictSchool district834FTE
- Lakeland CareSelf-help organizations for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities557
- C.D. Smith Home OfficeCommercial building construction general contractors554
- Charter CommunicationsWired telecommunication carriers496
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 115 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,845 people in all across the county; Eden has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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 high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Fond du Lac 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 Fond du Lac County and the Fond du Lac, WI metro.
Eden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eden$377,153
- 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.
- Eden8
Zip codes with a Eden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.