Arkdale, Wisconsin.
Typical home $241,746 (+3.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$788 (+164%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,890 +4%
- $232,856$241,746 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,531 +36%
- $178,215$241,746 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.
- Arkdale$1,269
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Arkdale, WI rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arkdale, Adams County, Wisconsin
Arkdale, in Adams County, had 201 people in the 2020 census. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Adams County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Adams 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arkdale is a very small community in Adams County, Wisconsin, where nearly every home is lived in by its owner. Incomes in the county run below the figure for the country as a whole, and a smaller share of people live in poverty here than you might expect for a place this size. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days and a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Adams County, some of the largest workplaces are resort and golf operations such as Kalahari Development and Sand Valley Golf Resort, along with the Adams-Friendship Area School District. A small share of people work from home, and unemployment in the county is higher than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Castle Rock Lake, a lake, is a short drive away, as is Roche-a-Cri State Park, a protected area. The Roche-a-Cri Petroglyphs, an archaeological site, are also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Necedah National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 8%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
What people in Adams County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Adams County had 4,411 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 59°. About 52 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Friendship weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Adams County
- Kalahari DevelopmentHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities1,083
- Sand Valley Golf ResortHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities482
- Chula Vista ResortHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities325
- Mt. Olympus ResortsHotels, resort, without casinos262
- Holiday Wholesale, Inc. WarehouseGeneral-line groceries merchant wholesalers215
- Adams-Friendship Area School DistrictSchool district201FTE
- WestRock CPCorrugated and solid fiber box manufacture197
- Heartland Farms Headquarters111211 potato farming168
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,316 people in all across the county; Arkdale has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Adams 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 Adams County.
Arkdale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arkdale$241,746
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Arkdale listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Arkdale27.61%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Arkdale34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Arkdale7
Zip codes with a Arkdale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arkdale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.