Poplar, Wisconsin.
Typical home $314,046 (+6.0% in a year). Duluth, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$916 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,800 +6%
- $296,247$314,046 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,377 +27%
- $246,669$314,046 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.
- Poplar$1,648
- 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 Poplar, WI rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Poplar, Douglas County, Wisconsin
Poplar is a village of 629 people in Douglas County. Half its households earn more than $113,125 a year and half less, against $75,099 across Douglas County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Douglas County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Douglas 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Poplar is a small village in Douglas County, Wisconsin, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live in poverty than you might expect. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and snow and rain adding up over the year, while July brings the warmest days, comfortably mild rather than hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels. Across Douglas County, some of the largest workplaces are Halvor Lines, the Superior School District and Lakehead Constructors. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a modest number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county has edged up over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. A short drive away, Amnicon Falls State Park and Brule River State Forest offer protected woodland and waterways to walk and explore, and Steele Lake is close by for time on the water. For a longer outing, the Lake Superior Railroad Museum is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 199households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Douglas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Douglas County had 15,643 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 20° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 55°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brule Rs weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Douglas County
- Halvor Lines, Inc. SuperiorTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload710
- Superior School DistrictSchool district649FTE
- Lakehead ConstructorsIndustrial building construction, general contractors472
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters396
- University of Wisconsin-SuperiorUniversity or college385
- AMSOIL (Superior)Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum294
- St Marys Hospital SuperiorCritical access hospital263FTE
- Superior RefineryPetroleum refineries263
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,239 people in all across the county; Poplar has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Douglas 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 Douglas County and the Duluth, MN-WI metro.
Poplar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Poplar$314,046
- 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.
Zip codes with a Poplar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Poplar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.