Bear Creek, Wisconsin.
Typical home $260,766 (+3.9% in a year). Appleton, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$149 (+12%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $9,750 +4%
- $251,016$260,766 since Sep 2025
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.
- Bear Creek$1,369
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Bear Creek, WI rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bear Creek, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
Bear Creek is a village of 427 people in Outagamie County. Half its households earn more than $66,250 a year and half less, against $85,069 across Outagamie County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Outagamie County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Outagamie 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bear Creek is a very small village in Outagamie County, with a population smaller than most places of any kind. Household incomes run below the county's, and the typical home is priced modestly. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm; rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a long one, so many people travel some distance for work. Across Outagamie County, the largest workplaces include the Appleton Area School District, Fox Valley Technical College and Gulfstream Aerospace.
Things to do. The Embarrass River is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Hartman Creek State Park, a protected area for walking and time outdoors, and to the Gardens of the Fox Cities, a botanical garden. The History Museum at the Castle, also a longer drive away, is a museum for a rainy or snowy day.
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- 117households
- 3%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Outagamie County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Outagamie County had 108,523 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 59°. About 44 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clintonville weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Outagamie County
- Appleton Area School DistrictSchool district1,976FTE
- Fox Valley Technical CollegeTwo-year college1,424
- Gulfstream AerospaceAircraft manufacturing1,364
- Ascension NE Wisconsin-st. ElizabethGeneral hospital1,057FTE
- School Specialty GreenvilleSchool equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers876
- Thedacare Regional Medical Center APGeneral hospital830FTE
- The Boldt CompanyAddition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building755
- Miller Electric Mfg. LLC - Main PlantArc welding equipment manufacturing747
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 315 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 39,769 people in all across the county; Bear Creek has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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 high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Outagamie 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 Outagamie County and the Appleton, WI metro.
Bear Creek home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bear Creek$260,766
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Bear Creek address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bear Creek — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.