Minocqua, Wisconsin.
Typical home $423,189 (+6.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,223 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,435 +7%
- $396,754$423,189 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $93,698 +28%
- $329,491$423,189 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.
- Minocqua$2,221
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Minocqua, WI rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Minocqua, Oneida County, Wisconsin
Minocqua, in Oneida County, had 411 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Oneida County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Oneida 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Minocqua is a small northern Wisconsin community, and the town's own population is quite small, with water close by on several sides. Winters here are long and cold, with January the coldest month and snow that piles up deeply over the season. Summers are mild and comfortable, with July the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Oneida County, some of the largest workplaces are Aspirus Rhinelander Hospital, Marshfield Medical Center-Minocqua and the Rhinelander School District. Getting to work takes very little time for most people, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. Water is the main draw, and Patricia Lake, Kawaguesaga Lake and Lake Minocqua are all in or beside town. Finnerud Forest Scientific Area, a protected area, is also in or beside town, and Wind Pudding Lake State Natural Area is a short drive away for quieter walks.
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- 9 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Oneida County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Oneida County had 17,262 jobs in 2025, 3.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 20° and lows near 1°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 54°. About 99 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Minocqua weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oneida County
- Ahlstrom Coated ProductsGroundwood paper, coated, made from purchased paper428
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters406
- Rhinelander School DistrictSchool district385FTE
- Aspirus Rhinelander HospitalGeneral hospital329FTE
- Marshfield Medical Center-minocquaGeneral hospital272FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters251
- Nicolet Area Technical CollegeTwo-year college217
- PrintpackFilm, plastics, packaging, manufacturing215
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 48 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,030 people in all across the county; Minocqua has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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 high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Oneida 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 Oneida County.
Minocqua home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Minocqua$423,189
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Minocqua listings, and the typical home goes pending in 21 days — 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.
- Minocqua29.31%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Minocqua53
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Minocqua12
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Minocqua$362,731
- United States$371,553
Zip codes with a Minocqua address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Minocqua — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.