Barron, Wisconsin.
Typical home $226,520 (+4.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$712 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,668 +4%
- $216,852$226,520 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,282 +40%
- $162,239$226,520 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.
- Barron$1,189
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Barron, WI rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Barron, Barron County, Wisconsin
Barron is a city of 3,733 people in Barron County. Half its households earn more than $47,469 a year and half less, against $65,933 across Barron County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Barron County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Barron 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Barron is a small city in Barron County, Wisconsin, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes here run well below the county's as a whole, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect, and very few work from home. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are comfortably warm, with July the warmest and rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Barron are Jennie-O Turkey Store, a turkey processing plant, MCHS Northland, a critical access hospital, and the Barron Area School District. Unemployment across Barron County is low and close to where it stood a year earlier, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Rice Lake, a lake, is a short drive away and the nearest of the area's waters. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Granite Lake and to the Red Cedar River, a river. The Ice Age National Scientific Reserve, a protected area, is also a longer drive away.
Report a mistake
- 1,587households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Barron County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Barron County had 21,222 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 59°. About 52 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rice Lake weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Barron
- Jennie-O Turkey StoreTurkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked882
- Mchs NorthlandCritical access hospital213FTE
- Barron Area School DistrictSchool district207FTE
- Senior ManagementNursing care facilities65
- Synergy Barron C-StoreConvenience food stores32
- Barron Assisted Living, LLC / Dove Healthcare - BarronRest homes without nursing care20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,253 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Barron 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 Barron County.
Barron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Barron$226,520
- 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 5 Barron 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Barron18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Barron6
Zip codes with a Barron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Barron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.