Burnett County, WI
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 45.87, -92.38.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
- 70th pct · 899th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 53rd pct · 34th of 72 Wisconsin counties · median $298,900
- 47th pct · 1,623rd of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 8th pct · 66th of 72 Wisconsin counties · median +6.0%
- US counties: not published this period
- Wisconsin counties: not published this period
- 37th pct · 2,016th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 16th pct · 60th of 72 Wisconsin counties · median 15,405
- 25th pct · 2,401st of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 12th pct · 63rd of 72 Wisconsin counties · median $1,037
- 82nd pct · 545th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 78th pct · 16th of 72 Wisconsin counties · median 5.4
Typical home value divided by the average annual wage of one covered job.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Home values #
Typical home $305,772 (Aug 2026), +2.7% over one year, +29.8% over five
- 70th pct · 899th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 53rd pct · 34th of 72 Wisconsin counties · median $298,900
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Burnett County, WI | $305,772 · +2.7% 1-yr |
Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.
Rents #
Zillow publishes no rent index for this area (ZORI covers about 1,400 counties)
- US counties: not published this period
- Wisconsin counties: not published this period
Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), smoothed, all homes and multifamily; price-to-rent = typical home / (typical rent × 12).
What the typical home costs to carry #
Principal and interest of $1,674 a month on $305,772 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,030 a month: 41.5% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $305,772 × 80% = $244,618, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $1,674/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $930 × 52 / 12 = $4,030) = 42% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $305,772 / ($930 × 52) = 6.3
The wage is one covered job’s average, not a household’s income, so this is the share of a single paycheque and not a mortgage underwriting ratio.
Estimate. Principal and interest on the typical home with 20% down over 30 years at this week's Freddie Mac average rate; compared with the average weekly wage of all jobs covered by unemployment insurance in the area (BLS QCEW), which is pay per job, not household income.
Jobs & wages #
5,036 jobs at 484 employers (2026 Q1); +1.0% jobs and +3.6% average weekly wage over the year
- 37th pct · 2,016th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 16th pct · 60th of 72 Wisconsin counties · median 15,405
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Burnett County, WI | 5,036 jobs · $930/wk · +1.0% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 912 | $1,259 | 2.25 | +3.3% |
| Retail trade | 516 | $575 | 1.05 | -2.8% |
| Accommodation and food services | 493 | $311 | 1.09 | -11.2% |
| Other services | 169 | $543 | 1.12 | -3.4% |
| Construction | 162 | $966 | 0.61 | +8.7% |
| Professional and technical services | 90 | $1,576 | 0.26 | -2.2% |
| Finance and insurance | 85 | $1,790 | 0.41 | +14.9% |
| Utilities | 84 | $1,369 | 4.22 | +23.5% |
| Wholesale trade | 71 | $1,729 | 0.37 | +4.4% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 66 | $862 | 0.31 | +8.2% |
| Information | 42 | $1,226 | 0.45 | -2.3% |
| Real estate and rental | 25 | $1,011 | 0.32 | +4.2% |
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.
Drought #
D3 extreme drought
Sites found: 5, searched within 0 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 0 km away are not.
US Drought Monitor current week; the highest class of any polygon containing the point.
Reservoirs #
Surface water layer not loaded
Sites found: 0, searched within 150 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 150 km away are not.
Σ(capacity × percent full) / Σ capacity over TWDB reservoirs within 150 km. Texas only; elsewhere USGS reservoir elevation/storage is listed without a capacity to normalise by.
Stream gauges #
Surface water layer not loaded
Sites found: 0, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.
USGS latest readings screened against EPA freshwater criteria (DO ≥ 5 mg/L, pH 6.5–9, conductance, turbidity, temperature); NWS flood categories where a NWPS gauge is co-located.
Groundwater #
No USGS monitoring wells within 75 km (or above 1,500 km)
Sites found: 0, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.
USGS latest daily water levels. A single latest reading says where the table is, not which way it is moving; select a well for its 365-day trace.
Water stress #
high (0.75)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.75 / 0.35
Banks & federal dollars #
$451.3 m in deposits at 4 offices of 3 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 3,518, highly concentrated. $191.2 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $166.1 m, contracts $13.8 m), $37,961 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Old National Bank | $200.5 m · 44.4% share · 1 office | |
| Community Bank of Cameron | $126.1 m · 27.9% share · 2 offices | |
| U.S. Bank National Association | $124.7 m · 27.6% share · 1 office | |
| Burnett, WI | $191.2 m FY2026 · $37,961/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $161.1 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old National Bank | $200,458,000 | 44.4% | 1 |
| Community Bank of Cameron | $126,132,000 | 27.9% | 2 |
| U.S. Bank National Association | $124,743,000 | 27.6% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 3,518 across 3 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 3 banks with deposits in the county = 44.4² + 27.9² + 27.6² = 3,518
FDIC Summary of Deposits: deposits at every insured office as of June 30, annual; HHI is the sum of squared county deposit shares (DOJ 1995 bank merger screen: 1000 / 1800). USAspending: obligations by place of performance for the latest complete federal fiscal year (Oct 1 to Sep 30), what agencies committed, not what they paid out; recipients are legal entities. Per-job divides obligations by BLS QCEW covered employment.
Federal obligations #
USAspending place-of-performance obligations for FY2026, by awarding agency.
| Awarding agency | Obligations |
|---|---|
| Social Security Administration | $144,541,236 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $15,852,580 |
| Department of Defense | $13,775,291 |
| Department of Transportation | $6,407,938 |
| Department of the Interior | $2,608,384 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $2,315,466 |
| Department of Agriculture | $2,311,982 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $1,383,339 |
| Department of Justice | $693,700 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $569,920 |
| Department of Education | $488,261 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $225,280 |
That is $37,961 per covered job, against 5,036 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $191.2 m / 5,036 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $37,961
USAspending obligations are recorded where the work is performed, so a prime award performed here is counted here even when the recipient is headquartered elsewhere. Recipients are legal entities, never people.
National context, not this county #
These are United States, single-gauge, single-state and port series. None of them is keyed to this county.
| Series | Latest | As of | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage · ft | 12.69 | 2026-10-05 | +3.3% |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) · ft³/s | 5,170.00 | 2026-02-05 | -25.3% |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full · % | 72.60 | 2026-10-06 | +0.0% |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly · trucks | 258,700.00 | 2026-08-01 | -0.4% |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual · TEU | 10,513,167.00 | 2023-01-01 | -13.5% |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports · ships | 6.00 | 2026-09-22 | -14.3% |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate · $ per 40 ft box | 6,830.00 | 2026-08-01 | +7.4% |
| US diesel retail price · $ per gallon | unavailable | not published | |
| WTI crude oil, spot · $ per barrel | 96.16 | 2026-09-29 | -3.2% |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate · % | 7.28 | 2026-10-01 | +3.6% |
| Housing starts, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,275.00 | 2026-08-01 | -2.6% |
| Building permits, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,403.00 | 2026-08-01 | -2.1% |
| Case-Shiller US home price index · index, Jan 2000 = 100 | 337.31 | 2026-07-01 | +0.1% |
| Unemployment rate · % | 4.20 | 2026-09-01 | +2.4% |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly · $ millions | -105,572.00 | 2026-08-01 | -13.7% |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly · $ millions | 646,347.00 | 2026-08-01 | +1.1% |
The indicator registry has no county-keyed series and no geographic selection: every entry is national, a named gauge, a single state or a port. They are here as the backdrop the county's own numbers move against, and they are never this county's readings.
What changed #
Burnett County, WI: 5 findings, 1 at a watch level and 4 noted
watchBurnett County, WI's typical home value of +2.7% scores 47 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 8 across Wisconsin counties, a gap of 39 points.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 39 = |47 across US counties - 8 across Wisconsin counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteBurnett County, WI's average weekly wage was 3.6% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- +3.6 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
- the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published
noteBurnett County, WI's covered employment was 1.0% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- +1 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
- the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published
noteBurnett County, WI's typical home value of +2.7% ranks 66th of 72 Wisconsin counties, against a median of +6.0%.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 8 on the 0-to-100 scale across 72 Wisconsin counties that published home.yoyPct
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteThe next Zillow ZHVI typical home value (monthly) covering Burnett County, WI is due between 2026-10-14 and 2026-10-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
Show the arithmetic
- window = 2026-10-14 to 2026-10-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
Every finding is produced by a fixed rule table and a fixed sentence for each rule. Nothing here is generated prose.