Winter, Wisconsin.
Typical home $240,623 (+5.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$758 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,520 +5%
- $228,103$240,623 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,451 +33%
- $181,172$240,623 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.
- Winter$1,263
- 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 Winter, WI rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Winter, Sawyer County, Wisconsin
Winter is a village of 325 people in Sawyer County. Half its households earn more than $41,204 a year and half less, against $60,801 across Sawyer County; 25% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Winter is a very small village, and everyone is likely to know one another by sight. Household incomes run well below the county's, and a good many residents live below the poverty line, while a typical home costs more than the local incomes might suggest. Winters are long and cold, with a great deal of snow, and summers are warm and mild enough for being outdoors.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, restaurants and hotels, and manufacturing also employing many. Across Sawyer County, some of the largest workplaces are Tamarack Health Hayward MED CTR, Louisiana-Pacific Hayward and the Hayward Community School District. Commutes tend to be fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Chippewa River is a short drive away and is the closest of the nearby waters. A longer drive brings you to the Chequamegon–Nicolet National Forest, a large protected area, and to Lac Courte Oreilles, a lake. Between the forest, the rivers and the lakes, much of what the area offers is outdoors.
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- 154households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 25%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 2%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, 2 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; Winter has one 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.
Winter home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Winter$240,623
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Winter 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.
- Winter27.55%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Winter29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Winter7
Zip codes with a Winter address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Winter — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.