Fennimore, Wisconsin.
Typical home $214,294 (+5.8% in a year). Platteville, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$627 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,810 +6%
- $202,485$214,294 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,558 +31%
- $163,736$214,294 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.
- Fennimore$1,125
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Fennimore, WI rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fennimore, Grant County, Wisconsin
Fennimore is a city of 2,764 people in Grant County. Half its households earn more than $61,875 a year and half less, against $66,858 across Grant County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Grant County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fennimore is a small city in Grant County, in the hilly southwest corner of Wisconsin. Most homes are lived in by their owners, a larger share than is typical across the country, and the typical home is valued at a level many buyers would find within reach. Household incomes run somewhat below the county's, and a good number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers turn warm in July, and precipitation comes as both rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care employ more local residents than any other field, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Southwest Wisconsin Technical College, the Fennimore Community School District and the Divine Rehabilitation and Nursing at Fennimore / Dove Healthcare - Fennimore nursing facilities are among the largest workplaces in town. Unemployment across Grant County is unchanged from a year ago, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before. Many residents drive a moderate distance to work, and relatively few work from home.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Effigy Mounds National Monument, an archaeological site a longer drive away. Wyalusing State Park, also a longer drive away, is another place where the area's long history can be explored. For time by the water, the Kickapoo River is a river to visit, also a longer drive away.
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- 1,143households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grant County had 17,152 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Boscobel Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fennimore
- Southwest Wisconsin Technical CollegeTwo-year college305
- Fennimore Community School DistrictSchool district108FTE
- Divine Rehabilitation and Nursing at Fennimore / Dove Healthcare - FennimoreSkilled nursing facilities74
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 74 people in all. Colleges come 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Grant 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 Grant County and the Platteville, WI metro.
Fennimore home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fennimore$214,294
- 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.
Zip codes with a Fennimore address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fennimore — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.