Center, Wisconsin.
Typical home $469,921 (+9.9% in a year). Appleton, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,493 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $42,209 +10%
- $427,712$469,921 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $152,979 +48%
- $316,942$469,921 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.
- Center$2,466
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Center, WI rose 9.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Center, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
Center is a town of 3,622 people in Outagamie County. Half its households earn more than $114,821 a year and half less, against $85,069 across Outagamie County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Center is a small Wisconsin town in Outagamie County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run well above the county's. Very few residents live below the poverty line, and typical home values are high. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in the building trades, and a good number work from home. Within the town itself, the larger workplaces include Lowney's Landscaping Center, which combines snow plowing with landscaping, Mackville, a stone quarry, and Turek's Plumbing. Unemployment across Outagamie County is low and close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. The Gardens of the Fox Cities, a botanical garden, and The History Museum at the Castle are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Lambeau Field, the stadium, and Lake Winnebago are a longer drive away.
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- 1,577households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 17%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, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Center
- Lowney's Landscaping CenterSnow plowing services combined with landscaping services92
- MackvilleCrushed and broken stone mining and quarrying38
- Turek's PlumbingPlumbing and heating contractors22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 152 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.
Center home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Center$469,921
- 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.
- Center13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Center address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Center — 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.