Marion, Wisconsin.
Typical home $251,052 (+8.8% in a year). Shawano, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$822 (+166%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,349 +9%
- $230,703$251,052 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,018 +44%
- $174,034$251,052 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.
- Marion$1,318
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Marion, WI rose 8.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
Marion is a city of 1,324 people in Waupaca County. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Waupaca County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marion is a small city in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, with a population younger than the typical American town's and a majority of homes lived in by their owners. Household incomes in the town run below the county's, and more residents live below the poverty line than is usual. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing at best and lows well below it, and a good deal of snow falls over the year. Summers are warm without being hot.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, forestry and mining, with others in transport, warehouses and utilities. The largest workplaces in Marion are Marion Body Works, which makes truck bodies and cabs, Great Lakes Veneer, a hardwood veneer mill formerly known as Marion Plywood Corporation, and the Marion School District. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home. Across Waupaca County, unemployment has edged up a little over the past year, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. The best known of the nearby places is the Shioc River, and the Red River is another river within reach. Hartman Creek State Park is a protected area for those who want a day outdoors, and Tree Lake is one of several lakes in the area. All of these are a longer drive away rather than a short trip.
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- 553households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Waupaca County had 18,477 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 59°. About 44 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clintonville weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marion
- Marion Body WorksTruck bodies and cabs manufacturing263
- Great Lakes Veneer, Inc. (formerly known as Marion Plywood Corporation)Veneer mills, hardwood164
- Marion School DistrictSchool district75FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 427 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Waupaca 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 Waupaca County and the Shawano, WI metro.
Marion home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marion$251,052
- 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.
- Marion15
Zip codes with a Marion address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marion — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.