Village · Wood County, Wisconsin

Port Edwards, Wisconsin

Port Edwards is a village in Wood County, Wisconsin, part of the Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield, WI metro area. It has 1,881 residents. Port Edwards, Wisconsin has a quality-of-life score of 75 out of 100 (high), ranking #3,871 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Wisconsin it ranks #268 of 396 cities and towns. It ranks best on primary care physicians (high), mammography screening (high) and restaurants and bars (high). It ranks worst on suicide rate (high), hospital quality rating (low) and effective property tax rate (high).

75High

Quality-of-life score: #3,871 of 15,651 cities and towns
Wisconsin: #268 of 396 in WI
Population: 1,881 (2020-2024)
Land area: 6 mi²
Density: 314.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 5564175

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.

Safety52#7,436/15,637
Economy41#9,257/15,631
Housing93#1,074/14,977
Health32#10,547/15,609
Healthcare68#5,070/15,650
Environment87#2,060/15,453
Education64#5,694/15,649
Infrastructure69#4,820/15,650
Community92#1,295/15,651
Leisure & amenities42#9,043/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Port Edwards, Wisconsin ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Wood 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

Primary care physicians · high137 /100k
97/100Wisconsin 82 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWood County value
Mammography screening · high57.0%
96/100Wisconsin 53.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWood County value
Restaurants and bars · high13.1 /10k
91/100Wisconsin 12.7 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWood County value
Rent-burdened households · low41.2%
91/100Wisconsin 43.7%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Loneliness · low31.6%
91/100Wisconsin 31.6%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Home price to income ratio · low2.1×
90/100Wisconsin 3.4×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077

Weaknesses

Suicide rate · high25.7 /100k
8/100Wisconsin 16.7 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataWood County value
Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100Wisconsin 3.8United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesWood County value
Effective property tax rate · high1.86%
10/100Wisconsin 1.32%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Adult obesity · high42.4%
11/100Wisconsin 39.2%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Firearm deaths · high21.6 /100k
12/100Wisconsin 13.4 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataWood County value
New business applications · low8.8 /1k
13/100Wisconsin 12.0 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauWood County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,739 (2015-2019) → 1,881 (2020-2024)
+8.2%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
59.1% (2015-2019) → 41.2% (2020-2024)
−18 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
83.2% (2015-2019) → 96.6% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$55,913 (2015-2019) → $75,598 (2020-2024)
+35%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Average commute timeWorsening
18.9 min (2015-2019) → 25.0 min (2020-2024)
+32%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Rent as share of incomeImproving
32.4% (2015-2019) → 26.4% (2020-2024)
−6 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%

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, Port Edwards, Wisconsin improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 12 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.

Improved2

Broadband+13 points83.2% → 96.6%
Household income+35%$55,913 → $75,598

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Port Edwards, Wisconsin between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	18.9 min2015-2019	25.0 min2020-2024	+6.1 min	Within the margin of error	7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	23.8%2015-2019	26.6%2020-2024	+2.8 points	Within the margin of error	50%
Broadband subscriptions	83.2%2015-2019	96.6%2020-2024	+13 points	Improved	74%
Child poverty rate	20.3%2015-2019	24.6%2020-2024	+4.3 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Effective property tax rate	2.36%2015-2019	1.86%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	91%
High school diploma or higher	94.8%2015-2019	91.8%2020-2024	−3 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Home price to income ratio	1.9×2015-2019	2.1×2020-2024	+0.2×	Within the margin of error	66%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3942015-2019	0.4202020-2024	+0.025	Within the margin of error	30%
Median household income	$55,9132015-2019	$75,5982020-2024	+35%	Improved	66%
Poverty rate	11.9%2015-2019	12.5%2020-2024	+0.7 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	32.4%2015-2019	26.4%2020-2024	−6 points	Within the margin of error	86%
Rent-burdened households	59.1%2015-2019	41.2%2020-2024	−18 points	Within the margin of error	92%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	4.0%2015-2019	3.9%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	48%

“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 Port Edwards, Wisconsin five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Port Edwards, 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, Port Edwards, Wisconsin itself moved +5.5 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

1,881 residents (±253)

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

771 households (±102)

Port Edwards, Wisconsin
Wisconsin share

Under $25k12%†95
$25k–50k23%†179
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

771 households (±102)

Port Edwards, Wisconsin
Wisconsin share

Own80%618
Rent20%153

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

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

771 workers (±121)

Port Edwards, Wisconsin
Wisconsin share

Drive alone72%552
Carpool4.5%†35
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield, WI

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 Wood County, the county holding most of Port Edwards's residents.

Wood County has 1,717 employer establishments, 231 for every 10,000 residents (0.93× the US rate of 248; 0.95× Wisconsin's), with 34,252 paid employees at an average annual pay of $56,947. The Census Bureau also counts 4,194 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,717; 4,194 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 231; US 248 · Wisconsin 244
Paid employees: 34,252
Average annual pay: $56,947; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	136	18.3	0.88×About typical	5,993	$86,373	150
Specialty trade contractors	115	15.5	1.00×About typical	1,094	$69,192	313
Restaurants and other eating places	114	15.4	0.84×About typical	1,660	$17,751	18
Truck transportation	64	8.6	1.70×More than typical	3,145	$55,317	155
Religious organizations	59	7.9	1.43×More than typical	521	$21,438	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	53	7.1	1.42×More than typical	203	$38,788	80
Building equipment contractors	49	6.6	1.10×About typical	690	$70,454	37
Drinking places (alcoholic beverages)	47	6.3	5.22×More than typical	282	$14,766	19
Full-service restaurants	47	6.3	0.82×About typical	524	$16,979	9
Offices of other health practitioners	47	6.3	1.04×About typical	287	$42,167	61
Construction of buildings	46	6.2	0.82×About typical	249	$59,996	179
Offices of physicians	46	6.2	0.96×About typical	4,563	$78,989	21

Rank places for an industry Open Wood County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 74,232 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

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Port Edwards, Wisconsin: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

55.7KFY2017
144.3KFY2018
139.4KFY2019
104.8KFY2020
150.6KFY2021
182.9KFY2022
82.2KFY2023
748.9FY2024

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Port Edwards, Wisconsin, so they do not add up across cities.

Port Edwards, Wisconsin's figures are part of those of Wood County, WI ($2.1M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in Wood 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.

Port Edwards, Wisconsin is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

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

Wood County86100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield, WI87

Other cities and towns in Wood 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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