Knapp, Wisconsin.
Typical home $291,845 (+3.5% in a year). Menomonie, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$853 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,951 +4%
- $281,894$291,845 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,717 +24%
- $236,128$291,845 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.
- Knapp$1,532
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Knapp, WI rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Knapp, Dunn County, Wisconsin
Knapp is a village of 478 people in Dunn County. Unemployment in Dunn County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dunn 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Knapp is a very small village in Dunn County, Wisconsin, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are typically valued well above what the county's incomes alone might suggest, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than is usual. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while July brings warm days and the year is fairly wet overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Very few work from home. Across Dunn County, some of the largest workplaces are the University of Wisconsin-Stout, the Menomonie Area School District and 3M Company. Unemployment in the county is low and close to where it stood a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. A short drive away, Lake Menomin and Tainter Lake are reservoirs good for time near the water, and the Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts is a theatre for an evening out. Wilson Place Museum, also a short drive off, is a museum for a quieter afternoon. Crystal Cave, a tourist attraction, lies a longer drive away.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Dunn County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dunn County had 18,155 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 59°. About 41 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Menomonie weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dunn County
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,119
- University of Wisconsin-StoutUniversity or college1,051
- 3M Company506
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters456
- Andersen DistributionScreens, window and door, merchant wholesalers409
- Menomonie Area School DistrictSchool district404FTE
- Mchs-red CedarCritical access hospital312FTE
- Phillips-MedisizeInstruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing283
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 55 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,889 people in all across the county; Knapp has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Dunn 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 Dunn County and the Menomonie, WI metro.
Knapp home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Knapp$291,845
- 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 Knapp address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Knapp — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.