Ogema, Wisconsin.
Typical home $219,728 (+10.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$714 (+163%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,309 +10%
- $199,419$219,728 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,791 +33%
- $164,937$219,728 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.
- Ogema$1,153
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Ogema, WI rose 10.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ogema, Price County, Wisconsin
Ogema, in Price County, had 188 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $58,641 a year and half less, against $60,546 across Price County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Price County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Price County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ogema is a small community in Price County, in the north of Wisconsin. Almost everyone here owns the home they live in, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while July brings pleasantly warm days, and precipitation is spread through the year as both rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home. Across Price County, some of the largest workplaces are BW Papersystems, which makes machinery for the paper industry, the fishing tackle maker St. Croix of Park Falls, and Flambeau Hospital. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though there are somewhat fewer jobs than there were the year before.
Things to do. Spirit Lake is a lake a short drive away, the closest of the nearby waters. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Wisconsin Concrete Park, a museum, and to the Fifield Fire Lookout Tower, a tourist attraction. Those who like quiet water can also head to the New Wood River, a longer drive away.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What people in Price County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Price County had 4,702 jobs in 2025, 3.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 0°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 54°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Prentice #2 weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Price County
- BW PapersystemsPulp, paper, and paperboard molding machinery manufacturing520
- Weather Shield Mfg Inc.--- Park Falls Plant 15Door units, prehung, wood and covered wood, manufacturing248
- St. Croix of Park FallsFishing tackle and equipment manufacturing185
- Flambeau Hospital MchsCritical access hospital115FTE
- Phillips School DistrictSchool district113FTE
- Chequamegon School DistrictSchool district112FTE
- Biewer Wisconsin SawmillBeams, wood, made from logs or bolts110
- MolexHardware, plastics, manufacturing110
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,894 people in all across the county; Ogema 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Price 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 Price County.
Ogema home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ogema$219,728
- 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.
Zip codes with a Ogema address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ogema — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.