Trego, Wisconsin.
Typical home $303,907 (+2.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$982 (+160%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,214 +2%
- $297,693$303,907 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,043 +35%
- $224,864$303,907 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.
- Trego$1,595
- 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 Trego, WI rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Trego, Washburn County, Wisconsin
Trego, in Washburn County, had 187 people in the 2020 census. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Trego is a very small community in Washburn County, among the smallest places a person could choose to live. Residents here are older than in most of the country, and homes carry a typical value that sits well above what the county's incomes alone might suggest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days and the year is reasonably wet overall.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a modest drive. Across Washburn County, the largest workplaces include the Spooner Area School District, Schmitz's Economart and Spooner Health System. 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. The Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum is a museum only a short drive away. For time on the water, the Namekagon River and Lac Courte Oreilles, a river and a lake, are a longer drive away. Gaslyn Lake is another lake reachable by a longer drive.
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- 92households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
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 21° and lows near 1°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 56 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Spooner Ag Res Station weather station, 6 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; Trego 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.
Trego home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Trego$303,907
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Trego listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Trego17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Trego8
Zip codes with a Trego address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Trego — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.