Taylor, Wisconsin.
Typical home $198,164 (+8.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$547 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,917 +8%
- $183,247$198,164 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,515 +23%
- $161,649$198,164 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.
- Taylor$1,040
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Taylor, WI rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Taylor, Jackson County, Wisconsin
Taylor is a village of 484 people in Jackson County. Half its households earn more than $59,531 a year and half less, against $68,110 across Jackson County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Taylor is a small Wisconsin village in Jackson County, home to very few people. Household incomes here run below the county's, and typical home values sit in the low range of what many older homeowners elsewhere would expect. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January highs staying below freezing and lows well under it, while July is pleasantly warm. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, shops, schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Jackson County, some of the largest workplaces are Millis Transfer, a long-distance trucking company, Lunda Construction, a bridge builder, and the Black River Falls School District. Jobs across the county slipped a little last year, and unemployment in the county has edged up slightly from a year earlier. The typical commute is a moderate one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The best-known spots nearby are the Buffalo River and the Trempealeau River, both a longer drive away. Black River State Forest, also a longer drive away, is a protected area of woods and trails. Perrot State Park is another protected area a longer drive off, set where the land meets the Mississippi River valley.
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- 151households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 7,570 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 59°. About 41 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Blair weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Millis TransferBulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance610
- Lunda ConstructionBridge construction514
- Black River Falls School DistrictSchool district265FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters264
- Ho-Chunk Gaming Black River Falls and TomahCasinos250
- Black River Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital249FTE
- City of Black River FallsGovernment base facilities operation support services170
- Northern Family FarmsNursery stock growing147
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,778 people in all across the county; Taylor 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Jackson 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 Jackson County.
Taylor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Taylor$198,164
- 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.
Zip codes with a Taylor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Taylor — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.