Black Wolf, Wisconsin.
Typical home $379,802 (+2.4% in a year). Oshkosh-Neenah, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$918 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,004 +2%
- $370,798$379,802 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,529 +9%
- $348,273$379,802 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.
- Black Wolf$1,993
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 40 years.
Typical home values in Black Wolf, WI rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Black Wolf, Winnebago County, Wisconsin
Black Wolf is a town of 2,429 people in Winnebago County. Half its households earn more than $98,669 a year and half less, against $74,925 across Winnebago County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Winnebago County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Black Wolf is a small town in Winnebago County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, far more than is typical across the county or the country. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than in most places. Winters are cold, with January highs and lows both below freezing, and summers turn pleasantly warm in July; rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, schools, hospitals and social care, shops, and the building trades. A four-year degree is held by a fair share of adults, and a fairly small number work from home, so most people commute a moderate distance to a job. Across Winnebago County, the largest workplaces include Kimberly-Clark, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and Miron Construction Co.
Things to do. Lake Winnebago is a short drive away for time on the water, and the EAA Aviation Museum, also a short drive off, suits anyone interested in flight. Menominee Park Zoo is another nearby stop for a relaxed afternoon. A longer drive reaches Horicon Marsh, a large wetland for walking and watching birds.
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- 947households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Winnebago County had 93,391 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 61°. About 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oshkosh Wittman Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Winnebago County
- CR Meyer - CorporateIndustrial building construction, general contractors2,335
- Kimberly-ClarkCorporate offices1,621
- Miron Construction CoAddition, alteration and renovation for-sale builders, commercial and institutional building1,593
- University of Wisconsin-OshkoshUniversity or college1,425
- Oshkosh Area School DistrictSchool district1,299FTE
- VocationalManufacturing plant1,188
- Plexus Manufacturing Solutions - NeenahLoaded computer boards manufacturing875
- Neenah Joint School DistrictSchool district797FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 249 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 36,458 people in all across the county; Black Wolf has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively 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 Winnebago County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Winnebago County and the Oshkosh-Neenah, WI metro.
Black Wolf home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Black Wolf$379,802
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Black Wolf10
Zip codes with a Black Wolf address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Black Wolf — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.