La Pointe, Wisconsin.
Typical home $437,363 (-0.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $2 (-0%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $896 -0%
- $438,259$437,363 since Sep 2025
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.
- La Pointe$2,296
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in La Pointe, WI fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in La Pointe, Ashland County, Wisconsin
La Pointe is a town of 428 people in Ashland County. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Ashland County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ashland 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. La Pointe is a very small town, and an older one, with residents who are, on the whole, well past middle age. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and homes here are valued well above what a typical household in the county could expect to pay. Winters are long, cold and very snowy, while summers are warm and pleasant, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Ashland County, the largest workplaces include Memorial Medical Center, the Ashland School District and Northland College. Unemployment across the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is the Gaylord Nelson Wilderness. The wreck of the R.G. Stewart, an archaeological site, also lies a short drive away. Big Bay State Park is a longer drive away.
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- 8%below the poverty line
What people in Ashland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ashland County had 7,864 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 56°. About 106 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bayfield North weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ashland County
- Memorial Medical CenterCritical access hospital474FTE
- C. G. Bretting Manufacturing CompanyPaper and paperboard converting machinery manufacturing400
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters257
- Ashland School DistrictSchool district235FTE
- Northland CollegeUniversity or college155
- Columbia Forest ProductsHardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing152
- Northlakes Community Clinic-Ashland Downtown ClinicDentists' offices78
- Essentia HealthFamily physicians' offices71
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,653 people in all across the county; La Pointe has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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 Ashland 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 Ashland County.
La Pointe home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- La Pointe$437,363
- 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.
- La Pointe8
Zip codes with a La Pointe address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls La Pointe — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.