Irma, Wisconsin.
Typical home $268,076 (+4.6% in a year). Wausau-Weston, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$766 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,877 +5%
- $256,199$268,076 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,636 +27%
- $211,440$268,076 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.
- Irma$1,407
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Irma, WI rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Irma, Lincoln County, Wisconsin
The Census does not count Irma on its own, so the figures here are Lincoln County's. Half the county's households earn more than $68,164 a year and half less; 11% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 80% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lincoln County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Irma is a town in Lincoln County in north-central Wisconsin, where the Census counts the county as a whole rather than the town alone. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical resident is in the older part of working life. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Across Lincoln County, many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in banking, insurance and property. Unemployment has risen a little over the past year but remains low, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before. A minority of adults hold a four-year degree, and most people travel to work by car rather than working from home.
Things to do. Grandfather Falls, a waterfall a short drive away, is one of the county's nearby natural attractions. Council Grounds State Park, a protected area a longer drive away, offers a quieter outing, and Lake Mohawksin, a lake a short drive away, is a good place for a summer afternoon. For indoor interests, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 12,772households
- 49.3median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Lincoln County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 9,938 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 20° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 57°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rice Rsvr Tomahawk-2 weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- Packaging Corporation of America414
- Merrill Area School DistrictSchool district364FTE
- Harley-DavidsonMotorcycles and parts manufacturing251
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters242
- Sierra Pacific IndustriesWood window frames and sash manufacturing213
- Lincoln Wood ProductsManufacturer of windows and doors201
- Tomahawk School DistrictSchool district170FTE
- Sierra Pacific IndustriesWood window frames and sash manufacturing152
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 34 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,724 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- 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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln County and the Wausau-Weston, WI metro.
Irma home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Irma$268,076
- 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.
- Irma7
Zip codes with a Irma address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Irma — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.