Plainfield, Wisconsin.
Typical home $240,477 (+7.6% in a year). Stevens Point, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$734 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,958 +8%
- $223,519$240,477 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,266 +35%
- $178,211$240,477 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.
- Plainfield$1,262
- 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 Plainfield, WI rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plainfield, Waushara County, Wisconsin
Plainfield is a village of 924 people in Waushara County. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Waushara County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plainfield is a small village in Waushara County, with a population small enough that most people know one another. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than in much of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Precipitation falls through the year as both rain and snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, farming, schools and hospitals, and shops. Across Waushara County, the largest workplaces include Actus Nutrition in Wautoma, Walmart, and the Wautoma Area School District. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Leola Marsh State Wildlife Area, a protected area, and Washburn Lake are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Hartman Creek State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Roche-a-Cri Petroglyphs, an archaeological site, are also a longer drive away.
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- 403households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Waushara County had 5,774 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 59°. About 43 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hancock Experiment Farm weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Waushara County
- Actus Nutrition - WautomaPowders, baking, manufacturing398
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters208
- Wautoma Area School DistrictSchool district200FTE
- Wisconsin SpiceMustard, prepared, manufacturing92
- Tri-County Area School DistrictSchool district91FTE
- Roundy'sSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores89
- Thedacare MED CTR - Wild RoseCritical access hospital88FTE
- Wild Rose School DistrictSchool district87FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,101 people in all across the county; Plainfield has one of its own. School districts come 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Waushara 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 Waushara County and the Stevens Point, WI metro.
Plainfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plainfield$240,477
- 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.
- Plainfield8
Zip codes with a Plainfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plainfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.