Eland, Wisconsin.
Typical home $271,945 (+15.1% in a year). Wausau-Weston, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$860 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $35,611 +15%
- $236,334$271,945 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $88,522 +48%
- $183,422$271,945 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.
- Eland$1,427
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Eland, WI rose 15.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eland, Marathon County, Wisconsin
Eland is a village of 199 people in Marathon County. Half its households earn more than $66,250 a year and half less, against $77,884 across Marathon County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Marathon County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marathon 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eland is a very small village in Marathon County, Wisconsin, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and banks, insurance and property also common. Some of the largest workplaces across Marathon County are Aspirus Wausau Hospital, the Wausau School District and Marathon Cheese. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than a year earlier.
Things to do. A longer drive away, Rib Mountain State Park is a protected area, and Granite Peak Ski Area offers skiing in the colder months. The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum is also a longer drive away, for an afternoon indoors, and the Little Wolf River is there for time by the water.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 12%work from home
What people in Marathon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marathon County had 69,778 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer 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 81° and lows near 58°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rosholt Nne weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marathon County
- Aspirus Wausau HospitalGeneral hospital2,009FTE
- Wausau School DistrictSchool district1,167FTE
- Marathon CheeseCheese, natural, manufacturing848
- Kolbe & Kolbe Millwork Co., Inc - Main PlantSash, door and window, wood and covered wood, manufacturing774
- D C Everest Area School DistrictSchool district771FTE
- Crystal Finishing Systems - SchofieldPainting metals and metal products for the trade610
- Abbyland FoodsBeef produced in slaughtering plants570
- Marshfield Medical Center WestonGeneral hospital563FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 230 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 27,973 people in all across the county; Eland 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
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Marathon County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Marathon County and the Wausau-Weston, WI metro.
Eland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eland$271,945
- 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 Eland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.