Best PlacesFalun, WI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Falun, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Falun ranks 29,633rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. An overheated housing market pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on cheap car insurance.
The best neighborhoods in Falun
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Falun's strengths and weaknesses
Where Falun ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 87% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 86% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 78% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 75% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 68% of towns
Where Falun ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than only 19% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 21% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 23% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Falun
A household needs to earn about $63,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Falun home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $64,760, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Falun's effective rate of 1.03%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Falun
Falun runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Falun.
Who works in Falun, and how
Work in Falun centers on manufacturing and construction. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 79%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 8%
Life in Falun
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Falun.
What the weather is like in Falun, month by month
Falun sees roughly 85 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 82 degrees. January highs sit near 24, with lows near 7. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 24° | 15° | 7° |
| April | 54° | 41° | 31° |
| July | 82° | 70° | 58° |
| October | 57° | 47° | 38° |
Flying in and out of Falun
Minneapolis-St Paul International/Wold-Chamberlain sits about 72 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 17.5 million passengers in 2025, with 195 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Falun
Schools across Falun average a C, better than 39% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Siren ElementaryC · 32% proficient
Top middle schools
- Webster MiddleB · 47% proficient
- Grantsburg MiddleB− · 40% proficient
Top high schools
- Grantsburg HighC− · 27% proficient
- Webster HighD · 23% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Falun school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Falun measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Falun against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Falun
Is Falun a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Falun ranks 29,633rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, low disaster risk, and low taxes, and lowest on an overheated housing market and empty homes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Falun expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $233,768. The overall cost of living runs about 11% below the national average. Set against a $64,760 median income, cost of living beats 36% of towns.
Is Falun safe?
Yes, Falun is safer than 63% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $265 per resident a year.
Compare Falun with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Falun. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Falun represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Falun detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Falun: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Falun: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Falun: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Falun: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Falun detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.