Norwalk, Wisconsin.
Typical home $201,684 (-5.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$541 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,261 -5%
- $212,945$201,684 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,898 +23%
- $163,786$201,684 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.
- Norwalk$1,059
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Norwalk, WI fell 5.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Norwalk, Monroe County, Wisconsin
Norwalk is a village of 611 people in Monroe County. Half its households earn more than $66,146 a year and half less, against $69,467 across Monroe County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Monroe County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Monroe 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Norwalk is a small village in Monroe County, home to a close-knit community. Residents are younger than in much of the country, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Many commute some distance to work, and a small share work from home. Some of the largest workplaces across Monroe County are the Veterans Health Administration, the Toro Company's Tomah plant and the Sparta Area School District.
Things to do. Wildcat Mountain State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Mill Bluff State Park is another protected area, and Norskedalen is a botanical garden, both a longer drive away. The La Crosse River is also a longer drive away.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Monroe County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Monroe County had 21,034 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cashton 3NNW weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Monroe County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,033
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage884
- The Toro Company - Tomah Manufacturing PlantLawnmowers, powered, manufacturing692
- Cardinal IG0468
- Sparta Area School DistrictSchool district467FTE
- Tomah Area School DistrictSchool district444FTE
- Multistack339
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters338
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 60 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,282 people in all across the county; Norwalk has none of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Monroe 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 Monroe County.
Norwalk home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Norwalk$201,684
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Norwalk address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Norwalk — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.