Hewitt, Wisconsin.
Typical home $297,767 (+5.0% in a year). Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$850 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,134 +5%
- $283,633$297,767 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,703 +35%
- $221,064$297,767 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.
- Hewitt$1,563
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Hewitt, WI rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hewitt, Wood County, Wisconsin
Hewitt is a village of 796 people in Wood County. Half its households earn more than $92,109 a year and half less, against $67,989 across Wood County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Wood County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hewitt is a village in Wood County, Wisconsin, and most of the people who live there own their homes, at a higher rate than is typical. Household incomes run well above the county's, very few residents live below the poverty line, and homes are valued at a fairly high level. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Wood County, some of the largest workplaces are Roehl Transport, Marshfield Medical Center and the Wisconsin Rapids School District. The typical commute is short, and a share of people work from home. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. A few places close by are a short drive away, including North Wood County Park, Foxfire Botanical Gardens and Jurustic Park, a museum. Beaver Creek, a river, and Lake Kaunewinne, a reservoir, are also a short drive away. Rib Mountain State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive.
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- 315households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wood County had 35,407 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°. About 57 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marshfield Experiment Farm weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wood County
- Roehl TransportTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload2,868
- Marshfield Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,592FTE
- Wisconsin Rapids School DistrictSchool district673FTE
- Marshfield Unified School DistrictSchool district468FTE
- Nekoosa0411
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters399
- Aspirus Riverview Hospital & ClinicsGeneral hospital388FTE
- Mid-State Technical CollegeTwo-year college351
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 104 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,133 people in all across the county; Hewitt has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Wood 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 Wood County and the Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield, WI metro.
Hewitt home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hewitt$297,767
- 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 Hewitt address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hewitt — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.