Gordon, Wisconsin.
Typical home $287,305 (+5.5% in a year). Duluth, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$891 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,058 +6%
- $272,247$287,305 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,273 +30%
- $221,032$287,305 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.
- Gordon$1,508
- 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 Gordon, WI rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gordon, Douglas County, Wisconsin
Gordon, in Douglas County, had 145 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Douglas County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Douglas County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gordon is a very small community in Douglas County, Wisconsin, with few enough residents that neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are valued well below what many other parts of the country ask, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural area. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while July brings pleasantly warm days. Precipitation through the year is moderate.
Work. Residents here work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Douglas County, some of the largest workplaces are Halvor Lines, the Superior School District and Lakehead Constructors. Unemployment across the county has risen a little compared with a year earlier, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The water is close at hand: the St. Croix Flowage, a reservoir, and Red Lake are both a short drive away, and the Ounce River, a river, is also nearby. With a longer drive, Pattison State Park, a protected area, is within reach, as is the Namekagon River. In a snowy winter or a warm July, these are the natural places to head for fresh air.
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- 5%below the poverty line
What people in Douglas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Douglas County had 15,643 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 20° and lows near 0°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 56°. About 60 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gordon weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Douglas County
- Halvor Lines, Inc. SuperiorTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload710
- Superior School DistrictSchool district649FTE
- Lakehead ConstructorsIndustrial building construction, general contractors472
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters396
- University of Wisconsin-SuperiorUniversity or college385
- AMSOIL (Superior)Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum294
- St Marys Hospital SuperiorCritical access hospital263FTE
- Superior RefineryPetroleum refineries263
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,239 people in all across the county; Gordon has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Douglas 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 Douglas County and the Duluth, MN-WI metro.
Gordon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gordon$287,305
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gordon16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Gordon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gordon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.