Marshfield, Wisconsin.
Typical home $254,410 (+5.0% in a year), asking rent $1,164 . Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$706 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,015 +5%
- $242,396$254,410 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,683 +32%
- $192,727$254,410 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.
- Marshfield$1,335
- 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 Marshfield, WI rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marshfield, Wood County, Wisconsin
Marshfield is a city of 18,929 people in Wood County. Half its households earn more than $58,407 a year and half less, against $67,989 across Wood County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marshfield is a city in Wood County, Wisconsin, with a population on the older side, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and typical home values and rents sit within the range you would expect for a small Wisconsin city. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing a good many. Marshfield Medical Center, the Marshfield Unified School District and Walmart are among the largest workplaces in the city. Commutes are short, and some people work from home. Unemployment across Wood County has edged up a little over the past year, and the county has seen somewhat fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. A short drive away, Foxfire Botanical Gardens offers a place to walk among plantings, and Jurustic Park is a museum for a rainy afternoon. The Black River is also close by for time near the water. Farther out, Rib Mountain State Park is a protected area with room to hike and take in the views.
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- 9,075households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 11%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 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marshfield Municipal Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marshfield
- Marshfield Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,592FTE
- Marshfield Unified School DistrictSchool district468FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters386
- IBPDoors, wood and covered wood, manufacturing296
- Nelson-JamesonGeneral warehousing and storage225
- US LBM HoldingsEngineered wood member manufacturing191
- Festival FoodsRetail - grocery189
- Marshfield Center- East WingHospices, inpatient care167
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 47 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,622 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- 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.
Marshfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marshfield$254,410
- 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 6 Marshfield 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.
- Marshfield17.58%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Marshfield116
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Marshfield34
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Marshfield$240,000
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Marshfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marshfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.