Fairchild, Wisconsin.
Typical home $208,165 (+4.5% in a year). Eau Claire, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$501 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,884 +4%
- $199,282$208,165 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,823 +11%
- $188,342$208,165 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.
- Fairchild$1,093
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 35 years.
Typical home values in Fairchild, WI rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fairchild, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin
Fairchild is a village of 451 people in Eau Claire County. Unemployment in Eau Claire County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Eau Claire County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fairchild is a very small village in Eau Claire County, home to far fewer people than the cities around it. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and more households live below the poverty line than is typical elsewhere. A typical home is worth a good deal less than a home in much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and lows well below freezing, while July brings warm days, and the year's rain and melted snow is a moderate amount.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Across Eau Claire County, some of the largest workplaces are Mchs EAU Claire Hospital, Menards and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Commutes are on the long side, which fits a village where much of the work lies elsewhere, and a few residents work from home. Unemployment across the county is steady, unchanged from a year earlier, though the county has a few fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor spot is Canoe Landing Prairie State Natural Area, a protected area a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Buffalo River and the Yellow River, and to Black River State Forest, a protected area with room to walk and look around. Lake Wissota, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away, and is a place for time by the water.
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- 206households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Eau Claire County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Eau Claire County had 58,593 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 59°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Augusta Rs weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Eau Claire County
- Mchs EAU Claire HospitalGeneral hospital2,238FTE
- Menards"home centers"1,440
- University of Wisconsin-Eau ClaireUniversity or college1,344
- Eau Claire Area School DistrictSchool district1,319FTE
- Chippewa Valley Technical CollegeTwo-year college801
- Marshfield Medical Center-eau ClaireGeneral hospital677FTE
- CurtTrailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufacturing641
- Menards"general warehousing and storage"625
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 155 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,410 people in all across the county; Fairchild has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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 Eau Claire 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 Eau Claire County and the Eau Claire, WI metro.
Fairchild home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairchild$208,165
- 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.
- Fairchild9
Zip codes with a Fairchild address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairchild — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.