Readstown, Wisconsin.
Typical home $192,431 (+1.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$451 (+81%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $2,704 +1%
- $189,727$192,431 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $9,567 +5%
- $182,864$192,431 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.
- Readstown$1,010
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 68 years.
Typical home values in Readstown, WI rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Readstown, Vernon County, Wisconsin
Readstown is a village of 376 people in Vernon County. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Vernon County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Vernon 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Readstown is a very small village in Vernon County, Wisconsin, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than is typical, and more households live below the poverty line than is typical across the county. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Vernon County, the largest workplaces include the Organic Valley LaFarge Headquarters, Vernon Memorial Hospital and Walmart. A small share of residents work from home, and the county's jobs slipped a little last year while unemployment stayed low.
Things to do. Jones Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, a botanical garden, is a short drive away, as is the Masonic Temple Building, a theatre. A longer drive leads to Wildcat Mountain State Park, a protected area, and to the Kickapoo River, one of several rivers and creeks in the area.
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- 166households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What people in Vernon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vernon County had 8,672 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 47 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Viroqua weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vernon County
- Organic Valley LaFarge HeadquartersHead offices326
- Vernon Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital297FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters251
- Vernon Area Rehabilitation CenterVocational rehabilitation or habilitation services175
- St. Josephs Health ServicesCritical access hospital166FTE
- Viroqua Area School DistrictSchool district162FTE
- Westby Area School DistrictSchool district149FTE
- Bethel Home & ServicesAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities116
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,142 people in all across the county; Readstown 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Vernon 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 Vernon County.
Readstown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Readstown$192,431
- 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.
- Readstown6
Zip codes with a Readstown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Readstown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.