Viola, Wisconsin.
Typical home $223,901 (+3.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$603 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,283 +3%
- $216,618$223,901 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,939 +14%
- $196,962$223,901 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.
- Viola$1,175
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Viola, WI rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Viola, Richland County, Wisconsin
Viola is a village of 676 people in Richland County. Half its households earn more than $88,214 a year and half less, against $66,420 across Richland County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Richland County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Viola is a small village where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well above the county's. Residents tend to be older than in much of the country, and a four-year degree is less common here than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm; precipitation arrives as both rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in wholesale and retail shops. Across Richland County, the biggest employers include Richland Hospital, Rockwell Automation - Richland Center, and Schreiber Foods. The county has recently seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier, while unemployment has stayed low and close to where it stood a year ago. The typical commute is a moderate one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Jones Arboretum and Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden a short drive away. Farther afield, Wildcat Mountain State Park is a protected area with trails and views, and the Upper Iowa River is a river within a longer drive.
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- 234households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richland County had 5,878 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 47 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Viroqua weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Richland County
- THE Richland HospitalCritical access hospital328FTE
- Rockwell Automation - Richland CenterRelays, electrical and electronic, manufacturing316
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters270
- Schreiber FoodsYogurt manufacturing237
- GoMacroFood, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale231
- Richland School DistrictSchool district198FTE
- Schreiber FoodsAcidophilus milk manufacturing181
- Foremost Farms USA (Richland Center, WI)Cheese manufacturing131
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,755 people in all across the county; Viola has none 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Richland 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 Richland County.
Viola home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Viola$223,901
- 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.
- Viola6
Zip codes with a Viola address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Viola — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.