Drummond, Wisconsin.
Typical home $267,662 (+4.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$829 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,361 +4%
- $257,301$267,662 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,566 +28%
- $209,096$267,662 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.
- Drummond$1,405
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Drummond, WI rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Drummond, Bayfield County, Wisconsin
Drummond, in Bayfield County, had 169 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $68,958 a year and half less, against $71,151 across Bayfield County. Unemployment in Bayfield County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bayfield County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Drummond is a very small community in Bayfield County, where the typical resident is older than in most American towns. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a typical home is valued well above what the incomes alone might suggest. Winters are long, cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are mild and July is the warmest, and there is steady precipitation through the year.
Work. People in Drummond work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with shops and manufacturing also employing many. Across Bayfield County, the largest workplaces include the Drummond Area School District, the National Park Service and Northern Clearing, an excavation contractor. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Rainbow Lake Wilderness and Porcupine Lake Wilderness are protected areas a short drive away, and Smear Lake, also a short drive off, is a place for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to Copper Falls State Park, a protected area with the kind of woods and waterfalls the region is known for.
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What people in Bayfield County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bayfield County had 4,295 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 19° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 56°. About 74 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Drummond weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bayfield County
- Northern ClearingExcavation contractors275
- Northern LightsAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities151
- Bayfield School DistrictSchool district117FTE
- Washburn School DistrictSchool district89FTE
- Drummond Area School DistrictSchool district53FTE
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior49
- Hansen's IGA - WashburnSupermarkets42
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 571 people in all across the county; Drummond has one 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 moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Bayfield 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 Bayfield County.
Drummond home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Drummond$267,662
- 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 Drummond address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Drummond — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.