Prairie Farm, WI population, income and ZIP codes

Prairie Farm village is a very small community in Wisconsin, with 462 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #553 of 807 ranked by population — larger than 31% of them. The median age here is 46.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Prairie Farm village earn a median of $46,563 a year, 40.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 37% below the $73,880 median for the 395 Wisconsin cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 20.8% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Prairie Farm village is valued at $124,600, 58.9% below the national figure and 41% below the $211,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs $672 a month, 52.2% below the national figure, or roughly $8,064 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.3% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 78.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

With 462 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Prairie Farm village against its county rather than against national figures.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.