Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Typical home $285,670 (+5.1% in a year), asking rent $1,088 (+5.1%). Green Bay, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$913 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,914 +5%
- $271,756$285,670 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $88,787 +45%
- $196,883$285,670 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.
- Green Bay$1,499
- 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 Green Bay, WI rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Green Bay, WI rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Green Bay runs $1,045/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $2,133 a month against $1,088 rent: a $1,499 mortgage payment, plus $328 property tax and $306 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Green Bay
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,133
- Renting$1,088
- Mortgage only$1,499
Property tax · $328/mo 1.38% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Brown County, WI
Insurance & upkeep · $306/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin
Green Bay is a city of 107,395 people in Brown County. Half its households earn more than $66,206 a year and half less, against $79,649 across Brown County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Green Bay was 3.3% in August 2026, and Brown County had 1.6% more 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. Green Bay is a city on the Fox River, in Brown County, and it is home to many people. Its residents are somewhat younger than in many American towns, and incomes run below the county's. A majority of homes are lived in by their owners, though renters make up a larger part of the city than they do across the county. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are pleasantly warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in the city are Bellin Memorial Hospital, the Green Bay Area Public School District and JBS. The job market has been steady, and the typical commute is short.
Things to do. Lambeau Field, the stadium that is one of the best known in the country, is a short drive away. Bay Beach Amusement Park sits in or beside town, as does the Fox River, which runs through the city. A short drive away, the National Railroad Museum offers a look at the history of the rails.
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- 43,790households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brown County had 160,329 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Green Bay Botanical weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Green Bay
- Bellin Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital3,457FTE
- Green Bay Area Public School DistrictSchool district2,742FTE
- Green Bay Broadway1,512
- JBSBeef carcasses, half carcasses, primal and sub-primal cuts, produced in slaughtering plants1,433
- Aurora Baycare Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,427FTE
- Green Bay Dressed BeefBeef produced in slaughtering plants1,169
- Northeast Wisconsin Technical CollegeTwo-year college1,073
- St. Vincent HospitalGeneral hospital1,059FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 128 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,407 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Brown County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Brown County and the Green Bay, WI metro.
Green Bay home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Green Bay$285,670
- 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 6 Green Bay listings, and the typical home goes pending in 40 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Green Bay15.90%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Green Bay40
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Green Bay359
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Green Bay130
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Green Bay$265,209
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Green Bay102.42%
Zip codes with a Green Bay address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Green Bay — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Green Bay
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54302 | Green Bay | 30,333 | $993 | $258,521 |
| 54303 | Green Bay | 28,153 | $1,138 | $252,332 |