Port Wing, Wisconsin.
Typical home $235,752 (+0.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$636 (+106%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $552 +0%
- $235,200$235,752 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,295 +13%
- $209,457$235,752 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.
- Port Wing$1,237
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Port Wing, WI rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Port Wing, Bayfield County, Wisconsin
Port Wing, in Bayfield County, had 156 people in the 2020 census. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Bayfield County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bayfield County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Port Wing is a very small community on the Lake Superior shore of Bayfield County, and the Flag River runs in or beside town. Residents tend to be older than in most places, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month, while July is the warmest and stays comfortable.
Work. Across Bayfield County, the largest workplaces include Northern Clearing, an excavation contractor, and school districts such as the Bayfield School District. Residents of Port Wing mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, then shops. Some work from home, and the county has seen a small gain in jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Flag River is in or beside town, and the Thomas Friant archaeological site is a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Gooseberry Falls State Park, a protected area along the lake. Split Rock Lighthouse State Park is another protected area a longer drive away.
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- 90households
- 9%work from home
What people in Bayfield County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bayfield County had 4,295 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 56°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Port Wing weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bayfield County
- Northern ClearingExcavation contractors275
- Northern LightsAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities151
- Bayfield School DistrictSchool district117FTE
- Washburn School DistrictSchool district89FTE
- Drummond Area School DistrictSchool district53FTE
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior49
- Hansen's IGA - WashburnSupermarkets42
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 571 people in all across the county; Port Wing has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Bayfield 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 Bayfield County.
Port Wing home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Port Wing$235,752
- 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 Port Wing address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Port Wing — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.