Springbrook, Wisconsin.
Typical home $266,619 (+8.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$816 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,882 +8%
- $245,736$266,619 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,728 +33%
- $200,891$266,619 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.
- Springbrook$1,399
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Springbrook, WI rose 8.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Springbrook, Washburn County, Wisconsin
Springbrook, in Washburn County, had 89 people in the 2020 census. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Washburn County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washburn County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Springbrook is a small community in Washburn County, in the northwest part of Wisconsin. Its residents are few enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Winters here are colder than in most of the country, and summers are warm enough for lakes and rivers to draw visitors.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing. Others work in local shops or in the building trades. Adults with a four-year degree are far less common here than across the country as a whole.
Things to do. The Chippewa River, a river a longer drive away, is one of the better-known waterways nearby. Lac Courte Oreilles, a lake also a longer drive away, is a popular spot for boating and fishing. The Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum, a longer drive away, offers a look at the region's long history of canoe building.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
What people in Washburn County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washburn County had 5,459 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 56°. About 59 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hayward Rs weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washburn County
- Spooner Area School DistrictSchool district158FTE
- Schmitz's EconomartGrocery stores132
- Spooner Health SystemCritical access hospital110FTE
- Shell Lake School DistrictSchool district104FTE
- Spooner Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, LLC / Dove Healthcare - SpoonerSkilled nursing facilities102
- R Stresau LaboratoryExplosives manufacturing77
- Forte Opening SolutionsHardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing76
- Shell Lake WoodcraftersNonupholstered, household-type, custom wood furniture, manufacturing70
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,068 people in all across the county; Springbrook 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Washburn 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 Washburn County.
Springbrook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Springbrook$266,619
- 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.
- Springbrook9
Zip codes with a Springbrook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Springbrook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.