Is Lemonweir a good place to live?
Lemonweir’s best subject grade is a B for cost of living; its weakest is a D for health. On health, just 13 of Wisconsin’s 874 towns do worse. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 70% of U.S. towns. Only 10 of the 363 Wisconsin towns we compare have a lower share of adults with a bachelor’s degree than Lemonweir. On civic life, just 2 of Wisconsin’s 869 towns do worse. The biggest park or preserve is Juneau County Forest, at 407 acres. Lemonweir has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
97% of working residents leave Lemonweir for work
Where Lemonweir’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Lemonweir grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Wisconsin), ordered by how far Lemonweir is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Lemonweir: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Lemonweir, 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 Lemonweir.
A larger share of adults in Lemonweir report frequent physical distress than in the typical Wisconsin or U.S. town
In Lemonweir, nearly one in ten adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance. Among 358 Wisconsin towns, just 6 have a higher share of adults who say their health is fair or poor than Lemonweir. The share of adults in Lemonweir who feel lonely is 31%, above the Wisconsin town median (30%) but below the median of U.S. towns (33%).
| Lemonweir | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 14% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 13% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 26% | 25% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 11% | 12% |
| What stands out | Lemonweir | WI |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 15% | 9.9% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.6% | 6.5% |
| More smokers | 19.7% | 13.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Lemonweir’s workers commute out
The share of residents in Lemonweir who live below the poverty line is 11%, against 6.4% in Wisconsin’s towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns. For most workers, Lemonweir is a place to come home to: only 3% work in town. The average trip to work for Lemonweir comes to 21 minutes. The top destinations are Mauston (19%), New Lisbon (9%) and Reedsburg (5%).
| Lemonweir | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 7.5% | 12% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.6% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 6.4% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 21 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Snowy winters and pleasant summers: that is Lemonweir’s year
Expect July afternoons of 82° and January nights of 8°, with about 47 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Lemonweir has set aside 1.5% of its land for conservation
There are 0.2 miles of trail across 2 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Juneau County Forest | — | 407 |
| 2. Mile Bluff/ Kwanis Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Natural hazards: moderate risk in Lemonweir, mostly inland flooding
Federal disaster aid has reached households in Lemonweir after 4 declared disasters, most recently in 2018. FEMA expects more storm and flood damage in the town than in just over half of U.S. communities. Paid flood insurance claims in the town since 2018: 5. Of the losses FEMA expects here, 37% come from inland flooding and 26% from heat waves.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Dells of the Wisconsin River and 7 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Lemonweir. Close and well known come first.
15 mi Canyon & gorgeDells of the Wisconsin River
28 mi Park & preserveIce Age Trail17 mi Theme parkNoah's Ark Water Park
30 mi State parkDevil's Lake State Park
16 mi Theme parkMt. Olympus Water & Theme Park23 mi MuseumMid-Continent Railway MuseumPhoto credits
Dells of the Wisconsin River: atramos, CC BY 2.0 · Ice Age Trail: MDuchek, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Devil's Lake State Park: CrispAir at en.wikipedia, CC BY 3.0 · Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park: User Royalbroil on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.5
Everything we know about Lemonweir
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Lemonweir; the nearest are
About 3 of every 100 Lemonweir residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Wisconsin.
About Lemonweir
Town in Wisconsin, United States
Lemonweir is a town in Juneau County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,658 at the 2020 census. The unincorporated community of Lemonweir is located in the town.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 43 sq mi
- Elevation
- 866 ft
- Area code
- 608
Lemonweir’s neighbors
7 towns share a border with Lemonweir.
| Town | WI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lemonweir | — | — | B | — | B− | D |
| Mauston | #316 | C | B | B− | B− | D |
| Marion | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lindina | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kildare | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Seven Mile Creek | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lisbon | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Germantown | — | — | C+ | — | C+ | C− |
Lemonweir and Germantown have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Lemonweir and Germantown report no FBI crime data of their own. Marion, Lindina, Kildare, Seven Mile Creek and Lisbon aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Lemonweir with a neighbor →
Questions about Lemonweir
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lemonweir, 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.