Eagle River, Wisconsin.
Typical home $385,934 (+5.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,170 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,496 +6%
- $365,438$385,934 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $92,012 +31%
- $293,922$385,934 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.
- Eagle River$2,026
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Eagle River, WI rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eagle River, Vilas County, Wisconsin
Eagle River is a city of 1,628 people in Vilas County. Half its households earn more than $55,179 a year and half less, against $68,431 across Vilas County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 49% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 51% are rented. Unemployment in Vilas County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eagle River is a small city in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, and the seat of Vilas County. Household incomes here run below the county's, and fewer homes are lived in by their owners than you might expect for a small northern town, which points to a good number of renters. Winters are long, cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days and a fair amount of rain across the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in town are the Northland Pines School District, Aspirus Eagle River Hospital and FedEx. Commutes are short, and some people work from home.
Things to do. The Eagle River itself runs in or beside town, and Eagle River Stadium is close by too. Indian Lake is a short drive away, and the Ottawa National Forest, a protected area of woodland, is a longer drive. Water is the draw in this part of Wisconsin, with lakes and rivers all around.
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- 732households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vilas County had 8,411 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 54°. About 76 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eagle River weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Eagle River
- Northland Pines School DistrictSchool district219FTE
- Aspirus Eagle River HospitalCritical access hospital68FTE
- FedExCourier and express delivery services52
- DeLeers Construction- Eagle RiverResidential construction, single-family, general contractors43
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture28
- Eagle RiverMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 239 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Vilas 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 Vilas County.
Eagle River home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eagle River$385,934
- 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 Eagle River listings, and the typical home goes pending in 27 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Eagle River23.23%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Eagle River27
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Eagle River93
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Eagle River24
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Eagle River$343,691
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Eagle River address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eagle River — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.