Herbster, Wisconsin.
Typical home $268,698 (-1.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$710 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,480 -1%
- $272,178$268,698 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,975 +9%
- $245,723$268,698 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.
- Herbster$1,410
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 39 years.
Typical home values in Herbster, WI fell 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Herbster, Bayfield County, Wisconsin
Herbster, in Bayfield County, had 130 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Herbster is a very small community on the Wisconsin shore of Lake Superior, in Bayfield County. Its residents are older than in most American towns, and homes here are valued somewhat above what the county's household incomes might suggest. Winters are cold, with January highs and lows well below freezing, and summers are mild, with July highs in the pleasant range.
Work. Residents of Herbster work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, and in manufacturing. Across Bayfield County, the largest workplaces include the Bayfield School District, the Washburn School District and the National Park Service. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year, and a small share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Siskiwit Lake and the Flag River are both a short drive away, for time on the water or along a river bank. A longer drive brings you to Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, a protected stretch of Lake Superior islands and shoreline. Also a longer drive away is Big Bay State Park, another protected area on the lake.
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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 21° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 56°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Port Wing weather station, 8 miles 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; Herbster has none 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.
Herbster home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Herbster$268,698
- 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.
- Herbster8
Zip codes with a Herbster address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Herbster — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.