Park Ridge, Wisconsin.
Typical home $327,677 (+2.1% in a year). Stevens Point, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$945 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,835 +2%
- $320,842$327,677 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,696 +32%
- $247,981$327,677 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.
- Park Ridge$1,720
- 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 Park Ridge, WI rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Park Ridge, Portage County, Wisconsin
Park Ridge is a village of 530 people in Portage County. Half its households earn more than $96,750 a year and half less, against $76,070 across Portage County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Portage County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Portage 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Park Ridge is a small village in Portage County, Wisconsin, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live in poverty than you might expect. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy, with a warm summer to follow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and banking, insurance and property also common. Commutes are short, and a good number of people work from home. Across Portage County, the largest workplaces include the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, the Stevens Point Area Public School District and Aspirus Stevens Point Hospital.
Things to do. The Plover River runs in or beside town, and Iverson Park is close at hand for walking and time outdoors. Schmeeckle Reserve, a botanical garden, is also in or beside town, and Thomas Lake is a short drive away for anyone who wants to be near the water.
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- 241households
- 66%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What people in Portage County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Portage County had 33,442 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 60°. About 49 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stevens Pt weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Portage County
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens PointUniversity or college1,192
- Stevens Point Area Public School DistrictSchool district1,008FTE
- Aspirus Stevens Point HospitalGeneral hospital476FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters475
- Ki Mobility - Headquarters (Stevens Point, WI)Wheelchairs manufacturing402
- McCain Foods, USAFrozen food entrees, packaged, manufacturing300
- Monogram AppetizersFrozen specialties, nec285
- Fahrner Asphalt SealersPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction268
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 84 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,304 people in all across the county; Park Ridge has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 moderate
- 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 Portage 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 Portage County and the Stevens Point, WI metro.
Park Ridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Park Ridge$327,677
- 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.
Zip codes with a Park Ridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Park Ridge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.