Howard, Wisconsin.
Typical home $397,635 (+4.3% in a year), asking rent $1,424 . Green Bay, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,174 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,377 +4%
- $381,258$397,635 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $97,707 +33%
- $299,928$397,635 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.
- Howard$2,087
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Howard, WI rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Howard, Brown County, Wisconsin
Howard is a village of 19,950 people in Brown County. Half its households earn more than $85,477 a year and half less, against $79,649 across Brown County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Brown County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Howard is a village beside Green Bay in Brown County, home to a good many residents. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run above the county's, with fewer people living in poverty than you might expect. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are comfortably warm, and precipitation is spread through the year as both rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops close behind. The largest workplaces in Howard include the Howard-Suamico School District, Woodman's Food Market and Menards. Commutes are fairly short, a good number of people work from home, and Brown County has been adding jobs, with unemployment staying low.
Things to do. The Green Bay Botanical Garden is in or beside town, and the Fox River is a short drive away. Also a short drive away are Lambeau Field, a stadium, and the National Railroad Museum.
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- 8,839households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 14%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, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Howard
- Howard-Suamico School DistrictSchool district771FTE
- Kitchen Fresh Foods LLC Gruber RoadFood, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale309
- Woodman's Food MarketGrocery stores268
- Alive & Kickin' Pizza Crust-Cornell PlantCommercial bakeries260
- Winona FoodsCheese merchant wholesalers210
- Menards"home centers"202
- Green Bay Packerland172
- Advantage Tank Lines 20310 - Green BayTanker trucking, local156
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 27 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,597 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
- 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.
Howard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Howard$397,635
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Howard listings — 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.
- Howard16.43%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Howard93
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Howard24
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Howard$394,774
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Howard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Howard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.