Freedom, Wisconsin.
Typical home $431,312 (+8.0% in a year). Appleton, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,313 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $31,979 +8%
- $399,333$431,312 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $123,699 +40%
- $307,613$431,312 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.
- Freedom$2,264
- 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 Freedom, WI rose 8.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Freedom, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
Freedom is a town of 6,216 people in Outagamie County. Half its households earn more than $121,711 a year and half less, against $85,069 across Outagamie County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Freedom is a town where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run well above the county's, with very few people living below the poverty line. Residents are on the younger side for a place where so many are homeowners, and homes here are valued well above what is typical across much of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January highs staying below freezing, while summers are warm, with July the warmest month.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Within Freedom itself, some of the largest workplaces are BelGioioso Cheese, the Freedom Area School District and Tidy View Dairy. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. A few places are a short drive away, including Gardens of the Fox Cities, a botanical garden, and The History Museum at the Castle. Lost Dauphin Park is also close by for time outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive leads to Lambeau Field, the stadium, and to Lake Winnebago.
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- 2,104households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 18%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, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Freedom
- BelGioioso Cheese - FreedomCheese manufacturing201
- Freedom Area School DistrictSchool district178FTE
- Tidy View DairyMilk production, dairy cattle59
- Milk SourceMilk production, dairy cattle32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 292 people in all. School districts come 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 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.
Freedom home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Freedom$431,312
- 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 9 Freedom 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.
- Freedom11.44%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Freedom21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Freedom8
Zip codes with a Freedom address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Freedom — 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.