Krakow, Wisconsin.
Typical home $353,418 (+8.6% in a year). Shawano, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,124 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $28,052 +9%
- $325,367$353,418 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $103,279 +41%
- $250,139$353,418 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.
- Krakow$1,855
- 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 Krakow, WI rose 8.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Krakow, Shawano County, Wisconsin
Krakow, in Shawano County, had 378 people in the 2020 census. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Shawano County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Shawano County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Krakow is a very small rural community in Shawano County, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Incomes sit a little below the county's, a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults, and few people live below the poverty line. Winters are long, cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are comfortably warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Shawano County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, ThedaCare Medical Center - Shawano and Belmark, which makes labels. The typical commute is a moderate drive, and unemployment in the county has risen a little over the past year.
Things to do. The closest named spot is the Pensaukee River, a short drive away and a good choice for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Lambeau Field, a stadium, as well as the Northeastern Wisconsin Zoo and the Green Bay Botanical Garden. With winters this snowy, the warmer months are the easiest time to make these trips.
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- 22%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
What people in Shawano County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shawano County had 12,341 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 56°. About 57 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Suring weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shawano County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters385
- Foodservice Shawano361
- Thedacare Medical Center - ShawanoCritical access hospital336FTE
- GenexSupport activities for animal production271
- Ho Chunk Gaming WittenbergCasinos257
- BelmarkManufacture of labels230
- Krueger International Bonduel PlantOffice furniture, modular system, installation194
- Nueske's Applewood Smoked MeatsBacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses191
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 40 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,002 people in all across the county; Krakow has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Shawano 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 Shawano County and the Shawano, WI metro.
Krakow home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Krakow$353,418
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Krakow address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Krakow — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.