Stanley, Wisconsin.
Typical home $241,809 (+5.0% in a year). Eau Claire, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$733 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,422 +5%
- $230,387$241,809 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,568 +35%
- $179,240$241,809 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.
- Stanley$1,269
- 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 Stanley, WI rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stanley, Chippewa County, Wisconsin
Stanley is a city of 3,804 people in Chippewa County. Half its households earn more than $48,052 a year and half less, against $74,680 across Chippewa County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 53% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 47% are rented. Unemployment in Chippewa County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stanley is a small city in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, with a population that sits in the middle of the age range rather than leaning old or young. Household incomes run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than you might expect for the area. Slightly more homes are lived in by their owners than rented, and few adults have a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow through the season, while July brings warm days and the year as a whole is fairly wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Aspirus Stanley Hospital, Ace Ethanol and Film Tech are among the largest workplaces in town. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home. Unemployment across Chippewa County has crept up a little over the past year, while the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Outdoor places lie within a longer drive of Stanley. Lake Wissota State Park and the Lake Wissota reservoir are among the nearest big names for boating and time by the water. Brunet Island State Park is a protected area on the Flambeau River, and the Yellow River is another river worth a trip out.
Report a mistake
- 1,080households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chippewa County had 27,224 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°. About 52 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stanley Wwtp weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stanley
- Aspirus Stanley HospitalCritical access hospital66FTE
- Ace EthanolEthanol, nonpotable, manufacturing63
- Film TechPackaging film, plastics, single-web or multiweb, manufacturing39
- Homeplace of StanleyAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities37
- Hansen's IGA - StanleySupermarkets35
- Smith RestorationsSign erection, highway, roads street or bridge25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 341 people in all. Hospitals come 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 high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Chippewa 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 Chippewa County and the Eau Claire, WI metro.
Stanley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stanley$241,809
- 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.
- Stanley14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Stanley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stanley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.