Kaukauna, Wisconsin.
Typical home $313,538 (+4.4% in a year). Appleton, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$936 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,097 +4%
- $300,441$313,538 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,974 +38%
- $227,564$313,538 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.
- Kaukauna$1,646
- 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 Kaukauna, WI rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kaukauna, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
Kaukauna is a city of 17,089 people in Outagamie County. Half its households earn more than $80,365 a year and half less, against $85,069 across Outagamie County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kaukauna is a small city on the Fox River where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run a little below the county's. Residents are somewhat younger than in many small cities, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days, and precipitation is moderate through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also common. Some of the largest workplaces in Kaukauna are Ahlstrom NA, which makes paper products, the Kaukauna Area School District, and Bernatello's Pizza. The commute is fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Wisconsin International Raceway, a race track, is in or beside town. High Cliff State Park and the Gardens of the Fox Cities, a botanical garden, are each a short drive away. For a longer outing, Lambeau Field, the stadium, is a longer drive away.
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- 7,298households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 8%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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kaukauna
- Ahlstrom NAPaper products532
- Kaukauna Area School DistrictSchool district411FTE
- Bernatello's PizzaFrozen pizza manufacturing253
- Van Ert ElectricLow voltage electrical work235
- Truck Country - AppletonTruck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers88
- Frito-LayConfectionery merchant wholesalers66
- Fox Valley Tool and Die Plant 2Cutting dies, metalworking, manufacturing65
- Precision Paper ConvertersFacial tissues made from purchased paper61
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,781 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.
Kaukauna home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kaukauna$313,538
- 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 7 Kaukauna 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.
- Kaukauna13.65%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kaukauna53
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kaukauna22
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Kaukauna address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kaukauna — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.