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Home appreciation in Wausau, WI

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Wausau, WI grew an average of 9.8% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+8.3%

2025 over 2024. Wisconsin: +6.2%.

5-year, per year

+9.8%

Average annual growth, 2020 to 2025. Wisconsin: +9.9%.

10-year, per year

+7.0%

+95.8% in total since 2015. Wisconsin: +7.3%.

How does your home compare?

Wausau, WI home prices rose 95.8% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +88.6% to +99.0%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Wausau, WI compares with Wisconsin

The metro and its state moved almost together over that window. For five-year price growth, Wausau, WI ranks 137th out of 409 metros nationwide and 8th out of 13 in Wisconsin.

Index, 2005 = 100

Wausau, WI and Wisconsin, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearWausau, WIWisconsin
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2101102
2005 Q3103104
2005 Q4103105
2006 Q1100106
2006 Q2103105
2006 Q3103106
2006 Q4103107
2007 Q1106108
2007 Q2105108
2007 Q3107107
2007 Q4108107
2008 Q1108108
2008 Q2106106
2008 Q3106104
2008 Q4106104
2009 Q1107105
2009 Q2105103
2009 Q3103101
2009 Q4102101
2010 Q110199
2010 Q210299
2010 Q3102100
2010 Q410299
2011 Q19997
2011 Q29995
2011 Q39996
2011 Q410097
2012 Q19996
2012 Q29895
2012 Q39996
2012 Q49896
2013 Q19996
2013 Q29895
2013 Q39796
2013 Q49495
2014 Q19595
2014 Q29896
2014 Q39797
2014 Q49998
2015 Q110099
2015 Q2100100
2015 Q3101100
2015 Q4100101
2016 Q1104102
2016 Q2104103
2016 Q3105105
2016 Q4104105
2017 Q1104106
2017 Q2107109
2017 Q3107110
2017 Q4109110
2018 Q1111112
2018 Q2114115
2018 Q3113116
2018 Q4114117
2019 Q1115118
2019 Q2118120
2019 Q3119122
2019 Q4120122
2020 Q1120123
2020 Q2122124
2020 Q3125127
2020 Q4127129
2021 Q1128131
2021 Q2133138
2021 Q3138145
2021 Q4144148
2022 Q1150152
2022 Q2155163
2022 Q3161167
2022 Q4165166
2023 Q1160167
2023 Q2171176
2023 Q3177181
2023 Q4175181
2024 Q1178184
2024 Q2180190
2024 Q3184192
2024 Q4183193
2025 Q1191197
2025 Q2197201
2025 Q3199204
2025 Q4199204
2026 Q1200206
2026 Q2207213

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +7.0% a year over ten years, +95.8% in total.

Over this history, home prices peaked in 2007, fell 8.6% to its 2013 low, and regained the 2007 level in 2017.

The strongest year was 2022 at +16.1%, and the weakest was 2011 at -2.7%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +8.3%, against +6.2% for the state.

ZIP codes in Wausau, WI

Over the ten years to 2025, the 6 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +88.6% in 54455 to +99.0% in 54474, while the metro as a whole rose 95.8%.

ZIP codes in Wausau, WI ranked by 10-year home-price change through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
54474+3.4%+9.5%+7.1%+99.0%
54448+19.2%+10.4%+7.1%+98.0%
54401+9.0%+9.7%+6.9%+95.0%
54403+7.3%+9.5%+6.9%+94.0%
54476+10.1%+10.0%+6.8%+93.1%
54455+6.6%+9.4%+6.5%+88.6%

What a home report shows

Enter an address and you get a score out of 10 for how the home ranks on appreciation potential against comparable homes in its market, with the nearby sales behind it. Here is one saved report.

Example report · saved October 14, 2026

165 N Canal St, Apt 1205, Chicago, IL 60606

Appreciation score

4.1 / 10

Around the median

Where it ranks

Ranks above about 41% of comparable homes in Chicago, IL for appreciation potential.

Price against nearby sales

Priced below most nearby sales, at $300 per square foot across 6 comparable sales.

Read the full example report

Year by year

Annual house price index for Wausau, WI and Wisconsin, 2005 = 100 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
2005100.0—100.0
2006100.7+0.7%103.4
2007104.8+4.0%104.7
2008104.7-0.1%103.0
2009102.6-2.0%100.0
2010100.4-2.2%96.9
201197.7-2.7%94.0
201297.0-0.7%93.3
201395.8-1.3%93.0
201496.0+0.2%94.3
201598.8+2.9%97.4
2016102.8+4.1%101.3
2017105.4+2.5%106.3
2018111.4+5.8%112.1
2019116.5+4.6%117.4
2020121.5+4.2%122.7
2021133.8+10.1%137.1
2022155.4+16.1%157.9
2023168.3+8.3%172.0
2024178.6+6.1%185.0
2025193.5+8.3%196.5

The 13 measured metros in Wisconsin

Measured metros in Wisconsin ranked by 5-year home-price appreciation through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
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1Green Bay, WI+6.6%+11.1%+7.9%
2Sheboygan, WI+7.3%+10.9%+8.0%
3Fond du Lac, WI+7.1%+10.8%+7.3%
4Oshkosh-Neenah, WI+6.8%+10.7%+7.7%
5Appleton, WI+5.6%+10.4%+7.6%
6Janesville-Beloit, WI+6.1%+10.4%+8.3%
7Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI+8.1%+9.8%+7.6%
8Wausau, WI+8.3%+9.8%+7.0%
9Eau Claire, WI+5.3%+9.6%+7.6%
10Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI+6.3%+9.4%+6.9%
11Madison, WI+5.0%+9.3%+7.0%
12Kenosha, WI+6.9%+9.2%+7.6%
13La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN+5.4%+9.0%+6.8%

Source & method: Metro figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index for metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. State figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. The chart uses quarterly readings, with each series set to 100 in the first quarter of 2005. ZIP figures: FHFA annual five-digit ZIP index (developmental), ZIPs with sufficient transaction history. Missing years are reported as missing by FHFA and are not estimated. Each ZIP is placed in the metro that holds the county with most of its housing units. “5-yr /yr” and “10-yr /yr” are compound annual growth over the window ending 2025; all figures are nominal. Data published by the FHFA House Price Index; this edition compiled 2026-10-17. Educational data, not investment advice.

See the Wisconsin row in the state rankings, the county rankings, and, for why one metro number hides so much, why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.

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Measured FHFA data · chart through 2026 Q2