Webster, Wisconsin.
Typical home $310,044 (+3.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$961 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,054 +3%
- $299,991$310,044 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,279 +26%
- $245,766$310,044 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.
- Webster$1,627
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Webster, WI rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Webster, Burnett County, Wisconsin
Webster is a village of 694 people in Burnett County. Half its households earn more than $35,089 a year and half less, against $62,819 across Burnett County; 25% of its people live below the poverty line. 44% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 56% are rented. Unemployment in Burnett County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Burnett 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Webster is a small village in Burnett County, in northwestern Wisconsin. More homes are rented than is usual for the county, and incomes run well below the county's, with more households living in poverty than is typical. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow through the season, while July brings warm summer days and the year is fairly wet overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Burnett County, the largest workplaces include Burnett Dairy Cooperative, which makes cheese, along with Burnett Medical Center and the Webster School District. The typical commute is fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Close by, the Yellow River, Blomberg Lake and Woods State Natural Area, and Amsterdam Sloughs Wildlife Area are all a short drive away, offering water and protected woodland and wetland to explore. For a longer outing, St. Croix State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 269households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 25%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Burnett County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Burnett County had 5,212 jobs in 2025, 2.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 53 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Danbury weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burnett County
- Burnett Dairy CooperativeCheese manufacturing271
- Fluid Connectors Grantsburg208
- Grantsburg School DistrictSchool district178FTE
- Burnett Medical CenterCritical access hospital112FTE
- Webster School DistrictSchool district100FTE
- Siren School DistrictSchool district82FTE
- Hopkins Sand & GravelReady-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing49
- R&J Enterprises WebsterGrocery stores48
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 823 people in all across the county; Webster has two 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Burnett 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 Burnett County.
Webster home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Webster$310,044
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Webster 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.
- Webster22.80%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Webster37
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Webster7
Zip codes with a Webster address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Webster — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.