Buchanan, Wisconsin.
Typical home $420,002 (+1.8% in a year). Appleton, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,214 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,391 +2%
- $412,610$420,002 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $94,914 +29%
- $325,088$420,002 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.
- Buchanan$2,204
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Buchanan, WI rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buchanan, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
Buchanan is a town of 6,857 people in Outagamie County. Half its households earn more than $105,478 a year and half less, against $85,069 across Outagamie County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buchanan is a town in Outagamie County where the population skews older than in most places, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Incomes run well above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Keller, Inc, a commercial building contractor, and Festival Foods, a grocery store, are among the largest workplaces in Buchanan, along with Lowe's. Commutes are fairly ordinary in length, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. High Cliff State Park, a protected area, and Gardens of the Fox Cities, a botanical garden, are both a short drive away. The History Museum at the Castle is also a short drive away, and Wisconsin International Raceway is in or beside town. For a longer outing, Lambeau Field, the stadium, is a longer drive away.
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- 2,994households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents 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 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 49 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Appleton weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Buchanan
- Keller, Inc - KaukaunaCommercial building construction general contractors284
- Festival FoodsRetail - grocery223
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter125
- Roundy'sSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores100
- Baum MachineMachine shops75
- Appleton-Eisen, WI-BiolifePlasmapheresis center71
- Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisc453310 used merchandise stores49
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 927 people in all. 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.
Buchanan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buchanan$420,002
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Buchanan listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Buchanan17.56%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Buchanan29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Buchanan9
Zip codes with a Buchanan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buchanan — 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.