White Lake, Wisconsin.
Typical home $219,701 (+11.6% in a year). Shawano, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$681 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,840 +12%
- $196,862$219,701 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,148 +44%
- $152,554$219,701 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.
- White Lake$1,153
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in White Lake, WI rose 11.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in White Lake, Langlade County, Wisconsin
White Lake is a village of 262 people in Langlade County. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Langlade County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Langlade County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. White Lake is a very small village in Langlade County, in northern Wisconsin, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Poverty is somewhat more common here than in many places, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are long and cold, with a lot of snow, and summers are warm.
Work. People who live in White Lake work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades, and very few work from home. Across Langlade County, some of the largest workplaces are Aspirus Langlade Hospital, Walmart and National Presto Industries. Unemployment in the county has risen a little over the past year, and there are somewhat fewer jobs than there were a year earlier.
Things to do. The area around White Lake has plenty of water and woods, though most of it is a longer drive away. Governor Thompson State Park is a protected area for time outdoors, and Metonga Lake is a reservoir nearby. For a day of local history, the Lumberjack Steam Train is a museum, and in winter Kettlebowl is a ski area, also a longer drive away.
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- 109households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Langlade County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Langlade County had 7,152 jobs in 2025, 2.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 57°. About 54 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Antigo weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Langlade County
- Aspirus Langlade HospitalCritical access hospital323FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters265
- National Presto IndustriesCartridge cases for ammunition manufacturing247
- Antigo Unified School DistrictSchool district236FTE
- Menards"home centers"146
- Dover Precision ComponentsBearings, plain, manufacturing140
- Volm Companies, Inc (Antigo, WI)Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing139
- Sartori Antigo CreameryProcessed cheeses manufacturing107
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,714 people in all across the county; White Lake has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Langlade 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 Langlade County and the Shawano, WI metro.
White Lake home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- White Lake$219,701
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- White Lake13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- White Lake5
Zip codes with a White Lake address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls White Lake — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.