Fence, Wisconsin.
Typical home $185,102 (+11.0% in a year). Iron Mountain, MI-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$601 (+162%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,408 +11%
- $166,695$185,102 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,812 +45%
- $127,290$185,102 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.
- Fence$972
- 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 Fence, WI rose 11.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fence, Florence County, Wisconsin
Fence is a town of 183 people in Florence County. Half its households earn more than $51,534 a year and half less, against $61,086 across Florence County. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Florence County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Florence 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fence is a very small town in Florence County, Wisconsin, where almost everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run below the county's, and the typical home value is modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing highs and lows well below it, while July is the warmest and pleasantly mild.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and professional and business services also employing many. Across Florence County, the largest workplaces include the Florence County School District, Pride Sports - Florence, a maker of golfing equipment, and Florence Hardwoods, a sawmill. Few people work from home, and the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than the year before, while unemployment there has edged up a little.
Things to do. Grandma Lake Wetlands State Natural Area, a protected area, and Long Lake are both a short drive away, good for quiet time near water and wildlife. For a longer outing, the Menominee River is a longer drive away, and its banks suit a day spent beside moving water.
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- 3%work from home
What people in Florence County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Florence County had 954 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 54°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Goodman Sanitary Dist weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Florence County
- Florence County School DistrictSchool district73FTE
- Pride Sports - FlorenceGolfing equipment manufacturing51
- Florence HardwoodsSawed lumber made in sawmills47
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 98 people in all across the county; Fence 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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Florence 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 Florence County and the Iron Mountain, MI-WI metro.
Fence home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fence$185,102
- 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 Fence address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fence — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.