Arkansaw, Wisconsin.
Typical home $284,473 (+12.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$952 (+176%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $31,597 +12%
- $252,876$284,473 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $95,123 +50%
- $189,349$284,473 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.
- Arkansaw$1,493
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Arkansaw, WI rose 12.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arkansaw, Pepin County, Wisconsin
Arkansaw, in Pepin County, had 194 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $75,530 a year and half less, against $75,256 across Pepin County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Pepin County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pepin 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arkansaw is a very small community in Pepin County, Wisconsin, with few residents and a quiet, rural feel. Household incomes here run a little above the county's, and very few people live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while summers are pleasantly warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Very few people work from home, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Across Pepin County, some of the largest workplaces are the Durand-Arkansaw School District, AdventHealth Durand and the Eau Galle Cheese Factory.
Things to do. The Eau Galle River runs in or beside town, and it is the closest water for a walk along the bank. A longer drive brings you to Lake Pepin, the large lake on the Mississippi side of the county. Frontenac State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area for hiking and views.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What people in Pepin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pepin County had 2,394 jobs in 2025, 2.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Durand weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pepin County
- Durand-Arkansaw School DistrictSchool district139FTE
- Bauer BuiltTire dealers, automotive84
- Adventhealth DurandCritical access hospital76FTE
- Black's Valley Ag SupplyAgricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers50
- EAU Galle Cheese FactoryCurds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing45
- L&P NybergGrocery stores39
- Pepin Area School DistrictSchool district39FTE
- Bauer BuiltAutomotive tire dealers35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 454 people in all across the county; Arkansaw has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Pepin County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Pepin County.
Arkansaw home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arkansaw$284,473
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Arkansaw address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arkansaw — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.