Wilson, Wisconsin.
Typical home $389,189 (+8.7% in a year). Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,081 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $31,182 +9%
- $358,007$389,189 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,220 +25%
- $310,969$389,189 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.
- Wilson$2,043
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Wilson, WI rose 8.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wilson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin
Wilson is a village of 209 people in St. Croix County. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in St. Croix County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wilson is a very small village in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are comfortably warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops and in the building trades. Across St. Croix County, the biggest workplaces include the Hudson School District, SMC and the New Richmond School District. Many people travel a good way to work, and some work from home.
Things to do. Crystal Cave, a tourist attraction, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts, a theatre, and to Kinnickinnic State Park, a protected area with river and lake scenery nearby. Willow River State Park is another protected area within a longer drive.
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- 17%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Croix County had 37,379 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 20° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 43 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Baldwin weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Croix County
- Hudson School DistrictSchool district689FTE
- SMCAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing584
- New Richmond School DistrictSchool district472FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters422
- Phillips Medisize Corporation - Phillips Medical New RichmondThermometers, medical, manufacturing387
- Uline Shipping SuppliesIndustrial supplies merchant wholesalers346
- Westfields HospitalCritical access hospital321FTE
- TargetDiscount department stores310
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 115 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,554 people in all across the county; Wilson has none 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across St. Croix 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 St. Croix County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Wilson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wilson$389,189
- 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 Wilson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wilson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.