Lone Rock, Wisconsin.
Typical home $252,428 (+11.5% in a year). Baraboo, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$778 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,029 +11%
- $226,399$252,428 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,033 +38%
- $183,395$252,428 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.
- Lone Rock$1,325
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Lone Rock, WI rose 11.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lone Rock, Richland County, Wisconsin
Lone Rock is a village of 829 people in Richland County. Half its households earn more than $60,375 a year and half less, against $66,420 across Richland County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Richland County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lone Rock is a small village in Richland County, Wisconsin. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while summers turn warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Richland County, some of the largest workplaces are THE Richland Hospital, Rockwell Automation - Richland Center and Schreiber Foods. The typical commute is fairly long, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Bear Creek, a river in or beside town, is the closest water. A short drive away is Tower Hill State Park, a protected area, and American Players Theatre, a well-known theatre. For a longer outing, Governor Dodge State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 347households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richland County had 5,878 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lone Rock Tri County Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Richland County
- THE Richland HospitalCritical access hospital328FTE
- Rockwell Automation - Richland CenterRelays, electrical and electronic, manufacturing316
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters270
- Schreiber FoodsYogurt manufacturing237
- GoMacroFood, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale231
- Richland School DistrictSchool district198FTE
- Schreiber FoodsAcidophilus milk manufacturing181
- Foremost Farms USA (Richland Center, WI)Cheese manufacturing131
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,755 people in all across the county; Lone Rock has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Richland 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 Richland County and the Baraboo, WI metro.
Lone Rock home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lone Rock$252,428
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Lone Rock10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Lone Rock address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lone Rock — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.