Sullivan, Wisconsin.
Typical home $446,422 (+6.2% in a year). Watertown-Fort Atkinson, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,347 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,041 +6%
- $420,380$446,422 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $118,396 +36%
- $328,026$446,422 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.
- Sullivan$2,343
- 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 Sullivan, WI rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sullivan, Jefferson County, Wisconsin
Sullivan is a village of 651 people in Jefferson County. 44% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 56% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sullivan is a small village in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, with a population that keeps it quiet and close-knit. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than across much of the country, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Jefferson County, some of the largest workplaces are Fort Atkinson Memorial Hospital, Standard Process and Watertown Unified School District. Many people commute a fair distance to work, and some work from home.
Things to do. Lower Nashotah Lake and Upper Nashotah Lake are both a short drive away, and so is the Scuppernong River, for time on the water or along the banks. Wisconsin Brewing Company Park, a stadium, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Aztalan State Park, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away.
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- 274households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 33,413 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 51 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sullivan 3SE weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- Fort Atkinson Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital591FTE
- Standard ProcessFood, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale572
- Watertown Unified School DistrictSchool district548FTE
- Jones Dairy FarmProcessed meats manufacturing483
- Krueger InternationalOffice furniture, modular system, installation442
- SpacesaverCabinets, office-type, freestanding, manufacturing442
- OSIProcessed meats manufacturing418
- Nestle Purina Pet Care - JeffersonCat food manufacturing400
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 112 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,783 people in all across the county; Sullivan has one 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Jefferson 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 Jefferson County and the Watertown-Fort Atkinson, WI metro.
Sullivan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sullivan$446,422
- 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 Sullivan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sullivan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.