Wild Rose, Wisconsin.
Typical home $310,831 (+6.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$984 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,078 +7%
- $291,753$310,831 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,967 +39%
- $222,863$310,831 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.
- Wild Rose$1,631
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Wild Rose, WI rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wild Rose, Waushara County, Wisconsin
Wild Rose is a village of 780 people in Waushara County. Half its households earn more than $48,750 a year and half less, against $67,107 across Waushara County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Waushara County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wild Rose is a small village in Waushara County, with a population small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes here run below the county's, and homes are typically worth a good deal more than the incomes might suggest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while summers are warm, and July is the warmest month. Precipitation is steady through the year, from rain in the warm months and melted snow in the cold ones.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Wild Rose are Thedacare MED CTR - Wild Rose, a critical access hospital, the Wild Rose School District, and Shelmet Precision CastingCo, a steel investment foundry. The commute is on the longer side, and a modest share of people work from home. Across Waushara County, unemployment has ticked up slightly from a year earlier, and the number of jobs slipped last year.
Things to do. Pine Lake is the closest of the nearby waters, a short drive away. Hartman Creek State Park is a protected area for walking and time outdoors, and Green Lake is another larger lake to visit; both are a longer drive away. Across this part of Wisconsin, lakes, rivers and wildlife areas fill much of the map, so time outdoors is easy to come by in the warmer months.
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- 430households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Waushara County had 5,774 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 59°. About 43 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hancock Experiment Farm weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wild Rose
- Thedacare MED CTR - Wild RoseCritical access hospital88FTE
- Wild Rose School DistrictSchool district87FTE
- Shelmet Precision CastingCoFoundries, steel investment40
- Platinum CommunitiesAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 71 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Waushara 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 Waushara County.
Wild Rose home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wild Rose$310,831
- 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 5 Wild Rose 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.
- Wild Rose20.36%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wild Rose28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wild Rose7
Zip codes with a Wild Rose address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wild Rose — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.