Holcombe, Wisconsin.
Typical home $323,665 (+5.5% in a year). Eau Claire, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$991 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,732 +5%
- $306,933$323,665 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $86,870 +37%
- $236,795$323,665 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.
- Holcombe$1,699
- 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 Holcombe, WI rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Holcombe, Chippewa County, Wisconsin
Holcombe, in Chippewa County, had 239 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $64,231 a year and half less, against $74,680 across Chippewa County. Unemployment in Chippewa County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chippewa 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Holcombe is a very small community in northern Chippewa County, so most days feel quiet and neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, while the typical home is valued well above what the incomes alone might suggest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow and ice, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Chippewa County, some of the largest workplaces are Precision Pipeline, the Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Holcombe Flowage, a reservoir, sits in or beside town and is the nearest water. A short drive away are Brunet Island State Park, a protected area, and the Flambeau River, a favorite for paddlers and anglers. For a longer outing, Lake Wissota State Park is a longer drive away and offers a large reservoir lake and shoreline.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
What people in Chippewa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chippewa County had 27,224 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Holcombe weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chippewa County
- Precision PipelineCompressor, metering and pumping station, gas and oil pipeline, construction881
- Chippewa Falls Area Unified School DistrictSchool district625FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters493
- TTM TechnologiesCircuit boards, printed, bare, manufacturing481
- Precision InfrastructureDistribution line, gas and oil, construction393
- Hewlett Packard EnterpriseComputer servers manufacturing369
- Ashley Furniture - ChippewaUpholstered furniture, household-type, custom, manufacturing273
- ITW Engineered FastenersMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing244
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 105 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,611 people in all across the county; Holcombe has two of its own. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Chippewa 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 Chippewa County and the Eau Claire, WI metro.
Holcombe home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Holcombe$323,665
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Holcombe listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Holcombe18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Holcombe5
Zip codes with a Holcombe address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Holcombe — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.