Richmond, Wisconsin.
Typical home $436,430 (+4.5% in a year). Whitewater, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,311 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,974 +5%
- $417,456$436,430 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $98,141 +29%
- $338,289$436,430 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.
- Richmond$2,291
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Richmond, WI rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Richmond, Walworth County, Wisconsin
Richmond is a town of 1,901 people in Walworth County. Half its households earn more than $75,179 a year and half less, against $80,520 across Walworth County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Walworth County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Richmond is a small town in Walworth County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is older than in much of the country. Incomes run a little below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by a smaller group of adults than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying below freezing, while July brings warm summer days, and the year's rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet total.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Across Walworth County, some of the largest workplaces are the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Marcus, which runs hotels and golf resorts, and Conagra Brands, a frozen food maker. Commutes are on the long side, and a fair number of people work from home. Unemployment in the county is low and has barely changed over the past year.
Things to do. The closest of the better-known places is Whitewater Lake, a reservoir a short drive away. Farther afield, Geneva Lake is one of the best known lakes in the area, and Aztalan State Park is an archaeological site worth the longer drive. For a day among gardens, Rotary Botanical Gardens is also a longer drive away.
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- 783households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Walworth County had 45,772 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Delavan Wwtp weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Walworth County
- University of Wisconsin-WhitewaterUniversity or college1,228
- MarcusHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities995
- Conagra BrandsFrozen specialty food manufacturing709
- Professional Power ProductsWindmills, electric power, generation-type, manufacturing587
- Elkhorn Area School DistrictSchool district440FTE
- MP SystemsTransmission and distribution line construction418
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters385
- Lake Lawn Resort721110 hotels and motels380
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 124 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,028 people in all across the county; Richmond has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Walworth 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 Walworth County and the Whitewater, WI metro.
Richmond home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Richmond$436,430
- 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.
- Richmond9
Zip codes with a Richmond address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Richmond — 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.