Argonne, Wisconsin.
Typical home $181,855 (+8.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$505 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,724 +9%
- $167,131$181,855 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,816 +25%
- $146,039$181,855 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Argonne$955
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Argonne, WI rose 8.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Argonne, Forest County, Wisconsin
Argonne, in Forest County, had 135 people in the 2020 census. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Forest County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Forest County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Argonne is a very small community in Forest County, Wisconsin, where the people are older than in most places and nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and poverty is not common. Winters are long, cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are mild, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and government also employing many. Across Forest County, some of the largest workplaces are Potawatomi Carter Casino Hotel, the Crandon School District and the Forest Service. The trip to work is a typical one for a rural area, and relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. Water is close at hand: the Wolf River and Lake Lucerne are both a short drive away, and the Popple River is nearby too. Farther afield, the Headwaters Wilderness is a protected area a longer drive away. Fans of motorsport can visit Crandon International Off-Road Raceway, a race track a short drive from town.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Forest County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Forest County had 3,222 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 20° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 73° and lows near 55°. About 80 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Laona Southwest weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Forest County
- Potawatomi Carter Casino HotelCasino hotels202
- Crandon School DistrictSchool district129FTE
- Wabeno Area School DistrictSchool district87FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture61
- NuRoc Health & RehabNursing homes53
- Nicolet HardwoodsLumber made from logs or bolts49
- Laona School DistrictSchool district40FTE
- Northern Lake ServiceEnvironmental testing laboratories or services40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 379 people in all across the county; Argonne has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Forest County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Forest County.
Argonne home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Argonne$181,855
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Argonne15
Zip codes with a Argonne address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Argonne — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.