Berlin, Wisconsin.
Typical home $220,088 (+8.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$738 (+177%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,089 +8%
- $203,000$220,088 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,932 +53%
- $144,156$220,088 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.
- Berlin$1,155
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Berlin, WI rose 8.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin
Berlin is a city of 5,571 people in Green Lake County. Half its households earn more than $59,472 a year and half less, against $68,196 across Green Lake County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Green Lake County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Berlin is a small city in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, with winters that run cold and summers that turn warm, and a steady amount of rain and melted snow through the year. Incomes here sit below the county's, and fewer homes are lived in by their owners than you might expect in a place this size. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in many towns, and the commute to work is a fairly short one.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Berlin are ThedaCare-Berlin, a critical access hospital, the Berlin Area School District, and Nelson Miller Group, which makes metal name plate blanks. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than it was a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Close by, Rush Lake is a short drive away for time on the water, and the Thrasher Opera House, a theatre, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Green Lake is a well-known lake a longer drive away, and the EAA Aviation Museum is a longer drive away for anyone who likes planes.
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- 2,477households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Green Lake County had 5,835 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Berlin Wwtp weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Berlin
- Thedacare-berlinCritical access hospital253FTE
- Berlin Area School DistrictSchool district199FTE
- Nelson Miller Group - BerlinName plate blanks, metal, manufacturing68
- American Industrial SalesPaint baking and drying ovens manufacturing60
- BerlinMail and parcel delivery23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 459 people in all. 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Green Lake 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 Green Lake County.
Berlin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Berlin$220,088
- 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 5 Berlin listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Berlin19.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Berlin27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Berlin7
Zip codes with a Berlin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Berlin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.