Palmyra, Wisconsin.
Typical home $376,500 (+5.6% in a year). Watertown-Fort Atkinson, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,084 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,822 +6%
- $356,679$376,500 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $92,398 +33%
- $284,102$376,500 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.
- Palmyra$1,976
- 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 Palmyra, WI rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Palmyra, Jefferson County, Wisconsin
Palmyra is a village of 1,719 people in Jefferson County. Half its households earn more than $86,058 a year and half less, against $83,750 across Jefferson County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Palmyra is a small village in Jefferson County, home to a population of younger average age than many Wisconsin communities. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect in a town with a steady working population. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days; the year also brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in other services, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Palmyra are Standard Process, which prepares packaged food products, the Palmyra-Eagle Area School District, and Epic Resins, an epoxy resin manufacturer. Most people drive to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Old World Wisconsin is a museum, and Kettle Moraine State Forest, Southern Unit at Whitewater Lake is a protected area beside Whitewater Lake, a reservoir. For a longer outing, Geneva Lake is a lake that takes a longer drive to reach. Together these give a mix of history, woods and water within reach of the village.
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- 843households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 33,413 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 51 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sullivan 3SE weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Palmyra
- Standard ProcessFood, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale572
- Palmyra-Eagle Area School DistrictSchool district98FTE
- Epic ResinsEpoxy resins manufacturing49
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 621 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Jefferson 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 Jefferson County and the Watertown-Fort Atkinson, WI metro.
Palmyra home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Palmyra$376,500
- 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.
- Palmyra5
Zip codes with a Palmyra address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Palmyra — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.