HullWI
A town of 5,239, settled in 1894.
Is Hull a good place to live?
Hull is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades B+ overall, 181st of 357 graded towns in Wisconsin, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $106K. It also does better than most on health: residents are healthier than 75% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. A typical home there costs about $284K, 3.7 years of the Stevens Point area’s $76K median household income. Only 58 of Wisconsin’s 879 towns score lower on history. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 82% of U.S. towns. Jordan County Park, at 361 acres with 3.6 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
99% of working residents leave Hull for work
Where Hull’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Hull grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Wisconsin), ordered by how far Hull is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Hull: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Hull, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Hull.
Hull sends most of its workers to Stevens Point and beyond and owes part of its health edge to its incomes, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Wisconsin (mostly inland flooding).
Hull’s grade for health is an A−
Against the 7,779 U.S. towns with household incomes like Hull’s, it is healthier than 60%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
30% of adults have high blood pressure in Hull, where Wisconsin’s towns sit at 33% and U.S. towns at 35%. Hull beats the Wisconsin average on 3 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0. 19% of adults binge drink in Hull.
| Hull | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 33% | 35% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 20% | 16% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 30% | 33% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Hull | WI |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 8% | 9.7% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.6% | 8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Hull stands out in Wisconsin and nationally, with fewer of its working residents who work locally
Hull has 386 jobs for its 2,274 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
1% of working residents work locally in Hull, below both Wisconsin’s towns (8.4%) and U.S. towns (8%). Jobs based in Hull grew to 386 in 2023, 154 more than in 2013. The average trip to work in Hull is 20 minutes.
| Hull | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 20 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $106,000 | $87,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 1% | 8.4% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 4.2% | 6.4% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
| Hull | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.3% | 3.8% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Jordan County Park | 3.6 mi | 361 |
| 2. Moses Creek Meadows | 0.3 mi | 32 |
| 3. George Rogers Living Forest | — | 37 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
High risk in Hull, with inland flooding at the top
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 96% of Wisconsin towns, with expected losses of about $358 per resident a year; that rating is what its B− for hazard risk is built on.
Hull’s FEMA risk score is 69 of 100.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Snowy winters and pleasant summers in Hull
Hull has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 81°, January nights drop to 7° and about 49 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Older than Wisconsin overall
People 65 and older are 23% of residents (19% statewide); adults 18 to 34 are 18% of residents (22% statewide). 30% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 33% across Wisconsin.
| Hull | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 46.9 years | 42.1 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 23% | 20% | 18% |
| Under 18 | 19% | 21% | 22% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.2 points. Across Wisconsin, 49.9% of residents are women.
| Hull | WI | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 8.1% | 11.2% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 10.8% | 10.2% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 8.1% | 9.3% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 9.8% | 12.6% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.3% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 11% | 11.8% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 18.6% | 13.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 14% | 11.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 9.3% | 7.3% | 7% |
| No diploma | 2.3% | 6.4% | 10.4% |
| High school | 34.9% | 29.4% | 26% |
| Some college | 18.1% | 19.5% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 14.3% | 11.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 20.8% | 22% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 9.6% | 11.4% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Everything we know about Hull
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Hull
About 4 of every 100 Hull residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Wisconsin.
About Hull
Town in Wisconsin, United States
Hull is a town in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 5,287 at the 2020 census. The unincorporated communities of Casimir and Jordan are located in the town. It is included in the Stevens Point Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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- Area
- 32 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,129 ft
Hull’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Hull.
| Town | WI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hull | #181 | B+ | B | — | B− | A− |
| Stevens Point | #212 | B | B− | B | B− | B+ |
| Carson | — | — | B− | — | B− | B |
| Dewey | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Carson has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Hull and Carson report no FBI crime data of their own. Dewey isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Hull with a neighbor →
Questions about Hull
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Hull, WI a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Hull grades B+ overall, better than 67% of U.S. towns and #181 of 357 in Wisconsin. It grades A− for health and B− for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Hull, WI expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.