Fall River, Wisconsin.
Typical home $369,671 (+7.3% in a year). Madison, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,103 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,005 +7%
- $344,667$369,671 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $99,070 +37%
- $270,601$369,671 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.
- Fall River$1,940
- 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 Fall River, WI rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fall River, Columbia County, Wisconsin
Fall River is a village of 1,801 people in Columbia County. Half its households earn more than $72,167 a year and half less, against $85,351 across Columbia County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Columbia County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fall River is a small village in Columbia County, Wisconsin, with a younger population than many small towns. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run below the county's. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm; the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Manufacturing has a strong presence in the village itself, where Fall River Foundry, Schumann Printers and the Fall River School District are among the largest workplaces. Commutes are of middling length, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Water draws people outdoors in this part of Wisconsin: Lake Monona and Lake Mendota are well-known lakes, each a longer drive away. Aztalan State Park, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away and suits a quiet afternoon. For something livelier, Little Amerricka is an amusement park a longer drive away.
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- 646households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Columbia County had 21,764 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Town Of Westford weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fall River
- Fall River FoundryBrass foundries246
- Schumann PrintersProfessional magazines and periodicals commercial printing without publishing169
- EK Machine_Plant 1Industrial pattern manufacturing91
- Fall River School DistrictSchool district71FTE
- Badger Custom PalletPallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing66
- Badger ExpressTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload51
- Fall River Foundry - Dept.93Machine shops30
- Vita BuildersManufacturing building construction22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 675 people in all. School districts come 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
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Columbia 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 Columbia County and the Madison, WI metro.
Fall River home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fall River$369,671
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Fall River7
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Fall River address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fall River — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.