Brussels, Wisconsin.
Typical home $384,931 (-1.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,082 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,783 -1%
- $390,714$384,931 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,316 +22%
- $315,616$384,931 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.
- Brussels$2,020
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Brussels, WI fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brussels, Door County, Wisconsin
Brussels is a town of 1,125 people in Door County. Half its households earn more than $100,700 a year and half less, against $74,795 across Door County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Door County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brussels is a small town in Door County, Wisconsin, where residents are younger than in many American communities and household incomes run well above the county's. Nearly everyone owns their home, and fewer households live below the poverty line than is typical. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are mild and pleasant, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, shops, schools, hospitals and social care, and the building trades. Across Door County, some of the largest workplaces are Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding, Door County Memorial Hospital and Hatco Sturgeon Bay. Commutes are a little longer than many people are used to, and a modest number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Gardner Swamp Wildlife Area, a protected area, is a short drive away and suits a quiet walk. Potawatomi State Park, another protected area, and Whitefish Dunes State Park, an archaeological site, are both a longer drive away. For a day trip with more of a crowd, Lambeau Field, the stadium, is also a longer drive.
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- 408households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Door County had 14,333 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more 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 77° and lows near 59°. About 53 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Forestville-4e weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Door County
- Fincantieri Bay ShipbuildingShipbuilding773
- Door County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital482FTE
- Hatco Sturgeon BayStoves, commercial-type, manufacturing380
- TTX HoldingsSheet metal work manufacturing345
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters228
- Sturgeon Bay School DistrictSchool district190FTE
- N.E.W. IndustriesMachine shops180
- Southern Door County School DistrictSchool district150FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,727 people in all across the county; Brussels has none of its own. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Door 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 Door County.
Brussels home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brussels$384,931
- 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.
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.
- Brussels6
Zip codes with a Brussels address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brussels — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.