Ephraim, Wisconsin.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$994 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
Living in Ephraim, Door County, Wisconsin
Ephraim is a village of 345 people in Door County. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Door County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Door 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ephraim is a very small village in Door County, Wisconsin, where almost everyone lives in a home they own. Poverty is less common than in many places, and a four-year degree is held by most adults, so it is a well-educated community. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while summers are warm and a fair amount of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in manufacturing, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in professional and business services. Some people work from home. Across Door County, some of the largest workplaces are Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding, Door County Memorial Hospital and Hatco Sturgeon Bay. Unemployment in the county is low and has changed little over the past year.
Things to do. Peninsula State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are Newport State Park, another protected area, and Kangaroo Lake, a lake that suits a quiet afternoon by the water. Together they make the outdoors an easy part of daily life here.
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- 78%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 11%work from home
What people in Door County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Door County had 14,333 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 62 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ephraim 1ne-wwtp weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Door County
- Fincantieri Bay ShipbuildingShipbuilding773
- Door County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital482FTE
- Hatco Sturgeon BayStoves, commercial-type, manufacturing380
- TTX HoldingsSheet metal work manufacturing345
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters228
- Sturgeon Bay School DistrictSchool district190FTE
- N.E.W. IndustriesMachine shops180
- Southern Door County School DistrictSchool district150FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,727 people in all across the county; Ephraim 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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Door 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 Door County.
Ephraim home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ephraim9
Zip codes with a Ephraim address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ephraim — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.