City · Price County, Wisconsin

Phillips, Wisconsin

Phillips is a city in Price County, Wisconsin. It has 1,602 residents. Phillips, Wisconsin has a quality-of-life score of 66 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,323 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Wisconsin it ranks #332 of 396 cities and towns. It ranks best on drug overdose deaths (low), hot days (low) and social associations (high). It ranks worst on primary care physicians (low), flu vaccinations (low) and distance to an airport (high).

66High

Quality-of-life score: #5,323 of 15,651 cities and towns
Wisconsin: #332 of 396 in WI
Population: 1,602 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 602.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 5562450

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety73#4,250/15,637
Economy13#13,627/15,631
Housing80#2,924/14,977
Health51#7,641/15,609
Healthcare37#9,817/15,650
Environment98#321/15,453
Education54#7,259/15,649
Infrastructure18#12,838/15,650
Community95#731/15,651
Leisure & amenities77#3,640/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Phillips, Wisconsin ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Price County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Drug overdose deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Wisconsin 14.6 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataPrice County value
Hot days · low1 days
98/100Wisconsin 4 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPrice County value
Social associations · high18.4 /10k
97/100Wisconsin 11.1 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePrice County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low5.1 µg/m³
96/100Wisconsin 7.4 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyPrice County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low102 min
96/100Wisconsin 140 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesPrice County value
Restaurants and bars · high14.3 /10k
94/100Wisconsin 12.7 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPrice County value

Weaknesses

Primary care physicians · low14 /100k
2/100Wisconsin 82 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePrice County value
Flu vaccinations · low23.0%
2/100Wisconsin 50.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePrice County value
Distance to an airport · high137 mi
3/100Wisconsin 37 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauPrice County value
Distance to an emergency room · high15.2 mi
7/100Wisconsin 5.5 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesPrice County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high120 mi
7/100Wisconsin 40 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauPrice County value
Adult obesity · high42.4%
11/100Wisconsin 39.2%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
68.0% (2015-2019) → 83.2% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
28.3% (2015-2019) → 43.2% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
36.8% (2015-2019) → 21.9% (2020-2024)
−15 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Average commute timeWorsening
15.2 min (2015-2019) → 20.9 min (2020-2024)
+38%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
10.4% (2015-2019) → 3.0% (2020-2024)
−7.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
14.4% (2015-2019) → 21.0% (2020-2024)
+6.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Phillips, Wisconsin improved on 4 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved4

Uninsured−7.4 points10.4% → 3.0%
Child poverty−15 points36.8% → 21.9%
Broadband+15 points68.0% → 83.2%
Bachelor's++6.7 points14.4% → 21.0%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Phillips, Wisconsin between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	15.2 min2015-2019	20.9 min2020-2024	+5.7 min	Within the margin of error	8%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.4%2015-2019	21.0%2020-2024	+6.7 points	Improved	77%
Broadband subscriptions	68.0%2015-2019	83.2%2020-2024	+15 points	Improved	80%
Child poverty rate	36.8%2015-2019	21.9%2020-2024	−15 points	Improved	89%
Effective property tax rate	2.18%2015-2019	1.70%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	89%
High school diploma or higher	88.0%2015-2019	92.8%2020-2024	+4.7 points	Within the margin of error	80%
Home price to income ratio	2.0×2015-2019	2.2×2020-2024	+0.2×	Within the margin of error	65%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4052015-2019	0.4812020-2024	+0.076	Within the margin of error	9%
Median household income	$41,8752015-2019	$47,0592020-2024	+12%	Within the margin of error	20%
Poverty rate	24.3%2015-2019	19.2%2020-2024	−5.1 points	Within the margin of error	81%
Rent as share of income	19.8%2015-2019	24.8%2020-2024	+5 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Rent-burdened households	28.3%2015-2019	43.2%2020-2024	+15 points	Within the margin of error	15%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	10.4%2015-2019	3.0%2020-2024	−7.4 points	Improved	93%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Phillips, Wisconsin five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Phillips, Wisconsin in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Phillips, Wisconsin itself moved −8.1 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,602 residents (±141)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

714 households (±70)

Phillips, Wisconsin
Wisconsin share

Under $25k25%180
$25k–50k26%186
$50k–75k24%172

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

714 households (±70)

Phillips, Wisconsin
Wisconsin share

Own53%378
Rent47%336

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

615 workers (±75)

Phillips, Wisconsin
Wisconsin share

Drive alone71%438
Carpool14%†88
Public transit0.0%0

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Price County, the county holding most of Phillips's residents.

Price County has 369 employer establishments, 262 for every 10,000 residents (1.05× the US rate of 248; 1.07× Wisconsin's), with 3,796 paid employees at an average annual pay of $48,225. The Census Bureau also counts 1,134 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 369; 1,134 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 262; US 248 · Wisconsin 244
Paid employees: 3,796
Average annual pay: $48,225; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Price County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	24	17	0.82×About typical	259	$60,444	25
Restaurants and other eating places	22	15.6	0.85×About typical	194	$15,634	9
Specialty trade contractors	21	14.9	0.96×About typical	63	$48,683	108
Religious organizations	20	14.2	2.56×More than typical	47	$14,979	—
Truck transportation	17	12.1	2.39×More than typical	42	$39,095	51
Full-service restaurants	16	11.4	1.48×More than typical	121	$13,793	5
Automotive repair and maintenance	15	10.6	2.11×More than typical	66	$31,879	18
Building equipment contractors	11	7.8	1.30×More than typical	43	$47,419	6
Gasoline stations	10	7.1	2.19×More than typical	134	$20,709	—
Lessors of real estate	10	7.1	0.58×Fewer than typical	28	$36,679	91
Banks and credit unions	9	6.4	1.98×Too few to compare	81	$51,877	—
Construction of buildings	9	6.4	0.84×Too few to compare	37	$46,730	68

Rank places for an industry Open Price County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 14,094 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Phillips is mostly in Price County.

See federal money in Price County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Phillips, Wisconsin is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Thomas P. TiffanyR-WI-7 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 10.4%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Price County74100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Price County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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