Hurley, Wisconsin.
Typical home $140,952 (+1.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$312 (+73%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,548 +1%
- $139,404$140,952 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $1,344 -1%
- $142,295$140,952 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.
- Hurley$740
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Hurley, WI rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Hurley, Iron County, Wisconsin
Hurley is a city of 1,558 people in Iron County. Half its households earn more than $47,083 a year and half less, against $60,625 across Iron County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Iron County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 4.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hurley is a small city on the Wisconsin side of the Michigan border, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is the case in many places. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and very heavy snowfall, while July brings pleasantly warm days.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with building trades, manufacturing and shops also employing a good share. The Hurley School District is among the largest workplaces in town, alongside Snow Country Hardwoods and Snowbelt Hardwoods, both wood manufacturers. Unemployment across Iron County is a little higher than it was a year earlier, and the county has fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. The Ironwood Theatre is in or beside town. A short drive away are Big Powderhorn Mountain, a ski area, and Gile Flowage, a reservoir. Copper Falls State Park, a protected area with waterfalls, is a longer drive away.
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- 669households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iron County had 1,615 jobs in 2025, 4.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 20° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 56°. About 155 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hurley weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hurley
- Hurley School DistrictSchool district57FTE
- Snow Country HardwoodsParquetry, hardwood, manufacturing25
- Snowbelt HardwoodsRolling pins, wood, manufacturing25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 156 people in all. 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 moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Iron 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 Iron County.
Hurley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hurley$140,952
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Hurley listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Hurley25.62%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hurley33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hurley11
Zip codes with a Hurley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hurley — 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.