Viroqua, Wisconsin.
Typical home $278,884 (+8.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$760 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,573 +9%
- $256,312$278,884 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,454 +18%
- $235,431$278,884 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.
- Viroqua$1,464
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Viroqua, WI rose 8.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Viroqua, Vernon County, Wisconsin
Viroqua is a city of 4,504 people in Vernon County. Half its households earn more than $67,438 a year and half less, against $71,893 across Vernon County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Vernon County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Viroqua is a small city where residents are older than in most American places, and most households own the home they live in. Incomes run a little below the county's, and a modest share of people live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January highs well below freezing and a good deal of snow, while July turns warm, and there is steady rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, transport and warehousing, and other services also employing a good number. The largest workplaces in Viroqua include Vernon Memorial Hospital, Walmart and the Viroqua Area School District. The typical commute is short, and a fair number of people work from home. Across Vernon County, jobs slipped slightly last year, and unemployment is low and close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. In town, the Masonic Temple Building is a theatre in or beside the centre. A short drive away, Jones Arboretum and Botanical Gardens offers a walk among planted gardens. For more time outdoors, Wildcat Mountain State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Upper Iowa River is another longer drive for anyone who likes being near a river.
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- 2,100households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vernon County had 8,672 jobs in 2025, 0.5% 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, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Viroqua
- Vernon Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital297FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters251
- Viroqua Area School DistrictSchool district162FTE
- Bethel Home & ServicesAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities116
- Nelson Global Products - ViroquaExhaust and tail pipes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing108
- Nelson Global Products ViroquaExhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing108
- Viroqua Food CooperativeGrocery stores89
- ViroquaMail and parcel delivery24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,076 people in all. 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 high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Vernon 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 Vernon County.
Viroqua home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Viroqua$278,884
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Viroqua listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Viroqua23.70%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Viroqua29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Viroqua8
Zip codes with a Viroqua address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Viroqua — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.