Pine River, Wisconsin.
Typical home $291,583 (+10.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$933 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,400 +10%
- $264,183$291,583 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,816 +36%
- $214,767$291,583 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.
- Pine River$1,530
- 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 Pine River, WI rose 10.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pine River, Waushara County, Wisconsin
Pine River, in Waushara County, had 144 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Waushara County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Waushara 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pine River is a very small rural community in Waushara County, Wisconsin, with few residents and wide stretches of open country around it. Typical home values here sit well above what the county's household incomes would suggest, and very few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Waushara County, the largest workplaces include Actus Nutrition in Wautoma, Walmart, and the Wautoma Area School District. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Pine Lake is a lake a short drive away, and it is the nearest of the water close to home. Hartman Creek State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away, as is the EAA Aviation Museum, a museum devoted to flight. Green Lake is another lake within a longer drive.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
What people in Waushara County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Waushara County had 5,774 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Berlin Wwtp weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Waushara County
- Actus Nutrition - WautomaPowders, baking, manufacturing398
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters208
- Wautoma Area School DistrictSchool district200FTE
- Wisconsin SpiceMustard, prepared, manufacturing92
- Tri-County Area School DistrictSchool district91FTE
- Roundy'sSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores89
- Thedacare MED CTR - Wild RoseCritical access hospital88FTE
- Wild Rose School DistrictSchool district87FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,101 people in all across the county; Pine River has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Waushara 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 Waushara County.
Pine River home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pine River$291,583
- 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.
- Pine River5
Zip codes with a Pine River address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pine River — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.