Village of Elderon, Marathon County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

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The municipality is the Village of Elderon, an incorporated village in Marathon County, Wisconsin (Census place GEOID 5523075; county subdivision GEOID 5507323075; WI DOA code 37122).

The Village of Elderon is a separate municipality from the Town of Elderon (DOA code 37022; 644 residents in 2020, 633 estimated in 2025). The village lies in the town's southeast quadrant.

The village covers 1.124 square miles of land and 0.006 square miles of water.

The Census internal point for Elderon is near 44.787402 N, 89.252117 W.

GNIS records Elderon as a populated place (feature 1564498) in Marathon County at 44.7838617, -89.2448364.

State Highways 49 and 153 serve the village; Main Street carries STH 153 and Highland Avenue carries STH 49.

Elderon uses ZIP code 54429; the village mailing address is PO Box 23, Elderon, WI 54429.

The Census geocoder places the village center in Assembly District 87, State Senate District 29 and Congressional District 7.

The 2020 Census counted 161 residents in the Village of Elderon.

The Wisconsin DOA estimates 157 residents as of January 1, 2025.

The Census Bureau's July 1, 2024 estimate for Elderon is 157, from a 2020 estimates base of 162.

The 2010 Census counted 179 residents in 80 households.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of total population is 142, plus or minus 47.

The ACS 2019-2023 median age is 59 years, plus or minus 23.6.

The ACS 2019-2023 median household income is $55,417, plus or minus $6,927.

The ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes is $143,800, plus or minus $58,787.

Robert Wyman is the village clerk of record, at 715-584-4203 or 715-454-6610. The listed village physical address is 184482 State Hwy 153.

The Census geocoder places the village center in the Wittenberg-Birnamwood School District (NCES 5517100), a PK-12 district of 3 schools based at 400 W Grand Ave., Wittenberg, with 1,175 students in 2024-25.

The Town of Elderon plan says the village has a lot of active farmland within its borders and that the Marathon County Farmland Preservation Plan (2013) projects no 15-year growth of the village beyond its limits.

Elderon sits in Marathon County, which had 3,436 business establishments and 65,770 paid employees in 2023. That series does not publish village counts.

A post office called Elderon has operated since 1888.

Elderon Park, a 12.5-acre former county park in the village, has a lighted baseball field with dugouts and bleachers, covered shelters with kitchenettes, pit toilets and horseshoe pits. A walking trail links its main area off Main Street/STH 153 to a Lilly Lake access lot off Highland Ave./STH 49.

Lilly Lake lies in the village; GNIS places it in Marathon County at 44.777486, -89.240467.

The Town of Elderon plan reports that traffic coming into the village from the east on STH 153 and heading north on STH 49 fell by 150 vehicles from 2007 to 2019.

A branch of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railroad reached the area with a depot in the village, which thrived in the lumbering years with a hotel, a blacksmith and three general stores.

As farming replaced logging, a creamery and a potato warehouse were built in the village. The area was known for Norwegian settlers, with Polish, German and Scottish residents as well.

The village was named for a grove of elder trees near the town site.