Haugen, Wisconsin.
Typical home $203,627 (+3.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$613 (+135%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $6,330 +3%
- $197,297$203,627 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,451 +30%
- $156,175$203,627 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.
- Haugen$1,069
- 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 Haugen, WI rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Haugen, Barron County, Wisconsin
Haugen is a village of 266 people in Barron County. Half its households earn more than $76,250 a year and half less, against $65,933 across Barron County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Haugen is a very small village in Barron County, Wisconsin, with a population far smaller than most towns people think of when they picture a village. Household incomes run above the county's, and the typical home value sits in a range many homeowners would find modest. Winters are long, cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm without being hot.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many people. Across Barron County, some of the largest workplaces are Jennie-O Turkey Store, Northwood Technical College and Rice Lake Weighing Systems. The usual trip to work is fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. ZCBJ Hall, a theatre, is in or beside town. A short drive away, Rice Lake and Red Cedar Lake offer water for boating and fishing, and the Red Cedar River is nearby as well. For a longer outing, the Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 134households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 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 19° and lows near 0°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 56 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cumberland weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Barron County
- Jennie-O Turkey StoreTurkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked882
- Northwood Technical CollegeTwo-year college863
- Rice Lake Weighing Systems, Rice LakeIndustrial scales manufacturing565
- Henry Repeating Arms - Rice LakeFirearms, small, manufacturing465
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters397
- Quanex HomeshieldSash, door and window, metal, manufacturing347
- Rice Lake Area School DistrictSchool district341FTE
- Saputo Cheese USACurds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing295
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 52 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,108 people in all across the county; Haugen has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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.
Haugen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Haugen$203,627
- 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 Haugen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Haugen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.