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Hertel, WI

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Hertel, WI: 1 USPS ZIP, population 147. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.

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ACS city ledger plate

Sheet HERTEL-WI · Hertel, WI 1 ZIPs · 147 pop · #21940/25278 · Burnett County

INC-MID · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-HIGH · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW

  • INC-MID $49,464
  • RANK-BOTTOM #21940/25278
  • BELOW-PEER under Webster
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-HIGH 88% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 147
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-LOW $114,600

Nearest income peer: Webster, WI (+ $6,665 income $)

Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.

Income neighbourhood around Hertel

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Hertel on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.

median HH income

What this shows County-sharing peers only, not the full US city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the mosaic is wide.

Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-25

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Hertel, WI sits among US cities with one of the lowest household incomes among US cities, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

13th pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
147
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$49,464
avg ZIP median income

Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.

Lower-income footing on only 1 ZIP ($49,464 average) · poverty 13.6%. The primary code (54845) carries the ACS household fields that matter.

Owner-occupancy here runs high (87.8%) - tenure is stable enough that the ZIP detail's owner share is the right next click, not a renter-heavy compare.

Within Wisconsin, Elcho is the closest lower-income city and Pembine the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Hertel.

Population concentration

Hertel's single ZIP 54845 carries the town

Hertel is published as a single USPS ZIP. Code 54845 is the entire residential footprint (147 ACS residents), so the city page and the ZIP page tell the same household story, open that ZIP for income, tenure, and commute detail.

Census ZBP business roll-up

No ZBP establishments filed for Hertel's ZIPs

Census County Business Patterns has no establishment rows joined to the ACS ZIPs mapped to Hertel. Read demography on this page; business counts are absent for this footprint.

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ZIP Codes in Hertel, WI

These ZIP codes sit in Burnett County, which covers 5 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Hertel. See the Burnett County roll-up →

Every one of the 4 cities sharing Burnett County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Hertel, Grantsburg, Webster and Danbury among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Danbury marks the far end of that range at $66,941, 35% above Hertel.

ZIP Code Population Median income Establishments Density
54845 147 $49,464 n/a 9
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