Eldorado, Wisconsin.
Typical home $354,973 (+2.5% in a year). Fond du Lac, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,083 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,802 +3%
- $346,171$354,973 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $112,115 +46%
- $242,859$354,973 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.
- Eldorado$1,863
- 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 Eldorado, WI rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eldorado, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
Eldorado is a town of 1,399 people in Fond du Lac County. Half its households earn more than $105,078 a year and half less, against $74,275 across Fond du Lac County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eldorado is a small town in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in shops. Across Fond du Lac County, some of the largest workplaces are Seneca Foods Corporation's vegetable canning operation in Ripon, Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac and Alliance Laundry Systems. The typical commute is a moderate one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the EAA Aviation Museum is a good stop for anyone interested in flight, and Sisson's Peony Gardens is a garden worth a visit when the flowers are in season. The Fond du Lac River is also close by. For a longer outing, Lake Winnebago and Horicon Marsh are both a longer drive away.
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- 536households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents 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 27° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fond Du Lac County Airport weather station, 8 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; Eldorado 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.
Eldorado home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eldorado$354,973
- 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 Eldorado address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eldorado — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.