Owen, Wisconsin.
Typical home $194,248 (+11.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$598 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,883 +11%
- $174,364$194,248 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,352 +42%
- $136,895$194,248 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.
- Owen$1,020
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Owen, WI rose 11.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Owen, Clark County, Wisconsin
Owen is a city of 916 people in Clark County. Half its households earn more than $61,250 a year and half less, against $67,400 across Clark County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Clark County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Owen is a small city in Clark County, Wisconsin, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values are modest. Household incomes run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are long and cold, with January highs staying well below freezing and a good deal of snow, while July brings warm days.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Owen are Kerry Owen, a cheese products manufacturer, the Owen-Withee School District and Hanson Masonry & Concrete. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Black River and Beaver Creek are rivers a longer drive away, and Rock Dam Lake is a lake in the same range. Anyone interested in natural areas can head to Twin Lakes Bog State Natural Area, a protected area, also a longer drive away. Winters bring plenty of snow, so it helps to plan trips around the season.
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- 352households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clark County had 11,428 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 56°. About 51 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Owen 1E weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Owen
- Kerry OwenCheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing132
- Owen-Withee School DistrictSchool district75FTE
- Hanson Masonry & ConcreteMasonry contractors24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 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 high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Clark 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 Clark County.
Owen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Owen$194,248
- 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.
- Owen5
Zip codes with a Owen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Owen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.