Lena, Wisconsin.
Typical home $309,113 (+9.0% in a year). Green Bay, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,019 (+169%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,446 +9%
- $283,666$309,113 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $90,071 +41%
- $219,041$309,113 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.
- Lena$1,622
- 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 Lena, WI rose 9.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lena, Oconto County, Wisconsin
Lena is a village of 537 people in Oconto County. Half its households earn more than $56,583 a year and half less, against $75,049 across Oconto County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 52% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 48% are rented. Unemployment in Oconto County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Oconto 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lena is a small village in Oconto County, Wisconsin, with a population that places it among the smaller communities in the state. Household incomes here run below the county's, and owners and renters both make up a real part of the village, so renting is common alongside owning. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in shops. Across Oconto County, some of the largest workplaces are Saputo Cheese, the Oconto Falls Public School District and Oconto Hospital & Medical Center. A four-year degree is less common among adults here than in many places, and the typical commute is short, with a fair number of people working from home.
Things to do. Copper Culture State Park, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Lake Noquebay, a lake in the county, and to the Peshtigo Fire Museum, which looks back at one of the best known fires in American history. The Oconto River is also a longer drive away for time spent by the water.
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- 251households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Oconto County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Oconto County had 9,091 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 52 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oconto West weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oconto County
- Saputo CheeseCheese spreads manufacturing447
- Oconto Falls Public School DistrictSchool district236FTE
- Cruisers Yachts / Pecor StreetBoat yards205
- Unlimited ServicesWire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants174
- Oconto Hospital & Medical CenterCritical access hospital156FTE
- Oconto Unified School DistrictSchool district141FTE
- Diversified WoodcraftsSchool furniture manufacturing136
- GmspNapkins, table, made from purchased paper128
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,294 people in all across the county; Lena has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Oconto 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 Oconto County and the Green Bay, WI metro.
Lena home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lena$309,113
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lena6
Zip codes with a Lena address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lena — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.