Grand Chute, Wisconsin.
Typical home $466,360 (+5.2% in a year), asking rent $1,470 . Appleton, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,391 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,935 +5%
- $443,425$466,360 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $121,456 +35%
- $344,905$466,360 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.
- Grand Chute$2,448
- 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 Grand Chute, WI rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Grand Chute, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
Grand Chute is a town of 23,831 people in Outagamie County. Half its households earn more than $78,105 a year and half less, against $85,069 across Outagamie County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 51% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 49% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Grand Chute is a town in Outagamie County where the typical resident is somewhat younger than the typical American, and most households earn a little less than the county as a whole. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than you might expect for the area, so renting is common alongside homeownership. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in Grand Chute are Fox Valley Technical College, McCain Foods Appleton and Walmart. Most people have a fairly short trip to work, and a good number work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the History Museum at the Castle and the Atlas Science Center are museums worth an afternoon, and the Gardens of the Fox Cities offers a botanical garden to stroll through. Little Lake Butte des Morts, also a short drive away, is a lake for time on the water. For a longer outing, Lambeau Field is a stadium reached by a longer drive.
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- 10,930households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 12%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, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grand Chute
- Fox Valley Technical CollegeTwo-year college1,424
- McCain Foods AppletonSoups, frozen, manufacturing590
- DBH WisconsinMinor league baseball clubs543
- M. J. Electric, LLC (Appleton, WI - 251114)Utility line, construction391
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters365
- Reynolds Presto ProductsFlexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing323
- Werner AppletonConstruction materials, electrical, merchant wholesalers306
- Woodman's Food MarketGrocery stores278
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 65 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,650 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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.
Grand Chute home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grand Chute$466,360
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 9 Grand Chute 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.
- Grand Chute10.77%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Grand Chute40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Grand Chute12
Zip codes with a Grand Chute address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grand Chute — 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.