Merrimac, Wisconsin.
Typical home $489,074 (+3.9% in a year). Baraboo, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,405 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,531 +4%
- $470,543$489,074 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $114,963 +31%
- $374,110$489,074 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.
- Merrimac$2,567
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Merrimac, WI rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Merrimac, Sauk County, Wisconsin
Merrimac is a village of 527 people in Sauk County. Half its households earn more than $92,417 a year and half less, against $79,541 across Sauk County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Sauk County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sauk 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Merrimac is a small village where households earn more than the county's typical household, and where fewer people live below the poverty line than is common in many places. Homes here are valued well above what many communities see. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and precipitation is steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Sauk County, some of the largest workplaces are Wilderness Resort, Grede and Sauk Prairie Memorial Hospital. The commute is fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Gibraltar Rock State Natural Area is a protected area in or beside town. A short drive away are Devil's Lake, a lake set within Devil's Lake State Park, and the Ice Age Trail, a long hiking trail. For a longer outing, the International Crane Foundation is a zoo-like center devoted to cranes, a longer drive away.
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- 231households
- 7%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Sauk County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sauk County had 36,443 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lodi weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sauk County
- Wilderness ResortAuto courts, lodging846
- GredeIron foundries760
- Cardinal IG0467
- Sauk Prairie Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital465FTE
- Baraboo School DistrictSchool district429FTE
- SeatsSeats for public conveyances, manufacturing414
- Sauk Prairie School DistrictSchool district388FTE
- Reedsburg Area Medical CenterCritical access hospital381FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 94 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,774 people in all across the county; Merrimac has none of its own. 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Sauk 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 Sauk County and the Baraboo, WI metro.
Merrimac home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Merrimac$489,074
- 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.
- Merrimac16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Merrimac6
Zip codes with a Merrimac address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Merrimac — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.