Dale, Wisconsin.
Typical home $425,192 (+5.4% in a year). Appleton, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,320 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,838 +5%
- $403,354$425,192 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $123,459 +41%
- $301,733$425,192 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.
- Dale$2,232
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Dale, WI rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dale, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
Dale, in Outagamie County, had 570 people in the 2020 census. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% 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 people in Outagamie County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dale is a very small community in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, where nearly every home is lived in by the people who own it. Homes here are valued well above what many places in the region ask, and no one in town is recorded as living below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Outagamie County, large workplaces include Appleton Area School District, Fox Valley Technical College and Gulfstream Aerospace. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than you might expect, the trip to work is fairly short, and only a few people work from home.
Things to do. The Embarrass River is a short drive away, and Hortonville Community Hall, a theatre, is close by as well. For a longer outing, Lake Winnebago is the best known of the nearby places, and the EAA Aviation Museum is also a longer drive away.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 0%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Outagamie County 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 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 59°. About 46 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New London weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Outagamie County
- Appleton Area School DistrictSchool district1,976FTE
- Fox Valley Technical CollegeTwo-year college1,424
- Gulfstream AerospaceAircraft manufacturing1,364
- Ascension NE Wisconsin-st. ElizabethGeneral hospital1,057FTE
- School Specialty GreenvilleSchool equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers876
- Thedacare Regional Medical Center APGeneral hospital830FTE
- The Boldt CompanyAddition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building755
- Miller Electric Mfg. LLC - Main PlantArc welding equipment manufacturing747
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 315 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 39,769 people in all across the county; Dale has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- 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.
Dale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dale$425,192
- 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.
- Dale6
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Dale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.