Chilton, Wisconsin.
Typical home $309,927 (+5.1% in a year). Appleton, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$921 (+131%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $15,161 +5%
- $294,766$309,927 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,619 +36%
- $227,307$309,927 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.
- Chilton$1,627
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Chilton, WI rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chilton, Calumet County, Wisconsin
Chilton is a city of 4,080 people in Calumet County. Half its households earn more than $82,923 a year and half less, against $88,810 across Calumet County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Calumet County was 2.8% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chilton is a small city and the seat of Calumet County in eastern Wisconsin, with incomes a little below the county's as a whole. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect of a county seat. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm, with July the warmest, and precipitation falls through the year as both rain and melted snow.
Work. Manufacturing is the main way residents earn a living, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, and then transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in Chilton are MB Companies, Worthington Cylinders and Briess Malt and Ingredients. The typical commute is short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Close to town are Gravity Park USA, a race track, and Ledge View Nature Center, a botanical garden, along with Aldo Leopold Nature Center, a park. The Killsnake River is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Lake Winnebago and High Cliff State Park are a longer drive away.
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- 1,817households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calumet County had 16,212 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 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 44 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chilton weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chilton
- MB Companies CORP/AMPAssembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture390
- Worthington Cylinders ChiltonMetal container manufacturing309
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters275
- Central Specialty Pet Kaytee - Chilton245
- Briess Malt and IngredientsBarley, malt, manufacturing145
- Chilton School DistrictSchool district137FTE
- Ascension Calumet HospitalCritical access hospital84FTE
- DVOHeat exchangers manufacturing35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,612 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Calumet County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Calumet County and the Appleton, WI metro.
Chilton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chilton$309,927
- 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 3 Chilton 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Chilton15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Chilton6
Zip codes with a Chilton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chilton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.