Radisson, Wisconsin.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$994 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
Living in Radisson, Sawyer County, Wisconsin
Radisson is a village of 273 people in Sawyer County. Half its households earn more than $41,625 a year and half less, against $60,801 across Sawyer County. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Sawyer County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sawyer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Radisson is a very small village in northern Wisconsin, the kind of place where residents tend to know one another. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well below the county's. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and a lot of snow, while July brings pleasantly warm days and a fair amount of rain across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in manufacturing. Across Sawyer County, some of the largest workplaces are Tamarack Health Hayward MED CTR, Walmart and Louisiana-Pacific Hayward. Very few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, while the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. The Couderay River runs in or beside town, so the water is close at hand. A longer drive brings you to Lac Courte Oreilles, a lake, and to Lake Chippewa, a reservoir, both well suited to a day on the water. Christie Mountain, a ski area, is also a longer drive away and gives winter visitors a reason to enjoy the snow.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Sawyer County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sawyer County had 7,329 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more 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 57 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Winter weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sawyer County
- Tamarack Health Hayward MED CTRCritical access hospital305FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters289
- Louisiana-Pacific HaywardOriented strandboard manufacturing265
- Hayward Community School DistrictSchool district259FTE
- Coborn's119
- Arclin SurfacesCoating purchased papers for nonpackaging applications86
- Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe UniversityUniversity or college75
- The Lakes Community Health Center, Hayward Rivers Edge CampusDentists' offices60
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,040 people in all across the county; Radisson has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- 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 Sawyer 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 Sawyer County.
Radisson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Radisson7
Zip codes with a Radisson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Radisson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.