Vesper, Wisconsin.
Typical home $240,901 (+11.5% in a year). Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$737 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,940 +12%
- $215,961$240,901 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,919 +44%
- $166,982$240,901 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.
- Vesper$1,264
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Vesper, WI rose 11.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vesper, Wood County, Wisconsin
Vesper is a village of 513 people in Wood County. Half its households earn more than $61,149 a year and half less, against $67,989 across Wood County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Wood County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vesper is a small village in Wood County, Wisconsin, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Over a year the village gets a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also common. Across Wood County, some of the largest workplaces are Roehl Transport, Marshfield Medical Center and the Wisconsin Rapids School District. Most people commute a fairly short drive to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Riverside Park and North Wood County Park are both a short drive away. Lyon Park, a garden, is also close by. For a longer outing, the Black River is a longer drive away and offers a chance to be out on the water.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wood County had 35,407 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 58°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wisconsin Rapids weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wood County
- Roehl TransportTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload2,868
- Marshfield Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,592FTE
- Wisconsin Rapids School DistrictSchool district673FTE
- Marshfield Unified School DistrictSchool district468FTE
- Nekoosa0411
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters399
- Aspirus Riverview Hospital & ClinicsGeneral hospital388FTE
- Mid-State Technical CollegeTwo-year college351
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 104 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,133 people in all across the county; Vesper has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Wood 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 Wood County and the Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield, WI metro.
Vesper home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vesper$240,901
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Vesper address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vesper — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.