Strum, Wisconsin.
Typical home $283,744 (+7.6% in a year). Eau Claire, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$868 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,042 +8%
- $263,701$283,744 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,041 +39%
- $204,703$283,744 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.
- Strum$1,489
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Strum, WI rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Strum, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
Strum is a village of 1,076 people in Trempealeau County. Half its households earn more than $68,958 a year and half less, against $76,313 across Trempealeau County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Trempealeau County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Strum is a small village in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than most people would expect in a place this size. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and freezing days common, while July brings warm summer afternoons and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many people. Few adults have a four-year degree, and a typical commute is fairly long, though some people work from home. Across Trempealeau County, the largest workplaces include Ashley Furniture in Arcadia, Pilgrim's Pride and Global Finishing Solutions, and unemployment there is low and little changed from a year ago.
Things to do. The Buffalo River is a short drive away and is the closest place to get out on the water. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Lake Wissota, a reservoir, and to Lake Wissota State Park beside it. Irvine Park, a park, is another longer drive from the village.
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- 413households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Trempealeau County had 12,345 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 60°. About 53 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mondovi weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Trempealeau County
- Ashley Furniture - ArcadiaNight stands, wood, manufacturing2,402
- Pilgrim's PrideProcessed poultry manufacturing425
- Global Finishing SolutionsSheet metal work manufacturing414
- Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - WisconsinLong distance truckload317
- Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau School DistrictSchool district208FTE
- Arcadia School DistrictSchool district203FTE
- Ornua Ingredients North AmericaProcessed cheeses manufacturing164
- Tri-county Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital138FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,882 people in all across the county; Strum 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Trempealeau 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 Trempealeau County and the Eau Claire, WI metro.
Strum home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Strum$283,744
- 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.
Zip codes with a Strum address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Strum — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Strum
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54758 | Osseo | 4,577 | — | $275,068 |
| 54770 | Strum | 2,033 | — | $285,878 |