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Malone, Wisconsin.

Typical home $382,005 (+3.0% in a year). Fond du Lac, WI metro.

What it costs per month · Malone $2,005/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,093 (+120%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $11,106 +3%
$370,899$382,005 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $87,601 +30%
$294,404$382,005 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Malone $2,005 Wisconsin $1,770 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Malone$2,005
  • Wisconsin$1,770
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.

Typical home values in Malone, WI rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Living in Malone, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

The Census does not count Malone on its own, so the figures here are Fond du Lac County's. Half the county's households earn more than $74,275 a year and half less; 9% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 71% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Fond du Lac County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fond du Lac County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.

People 104,000 about, in Fond du Lac County: the Census does not count Malone on its own
Household income $74,275 the median in Fond du Lac County, give or take $2,612
Unemployment 3.2% Fond du Lac County, August 2026; 2.9% a year before
Homes 71% lived in by their owners; 29% rented

Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Malone is a small town in Fond du Lac County, and the figures on this page are for the county as a whole. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and renting is less common than owning. The typical resident is middle-aged, and winters are cold, with snow most years and summers that are warm and wet.

Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in the building trades. Unemployment is low and was lower this year than last, though the number of jobs across the county dipped slightly in the most recent year. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people commute to work rather than working from home.

Things to do. The Malone Area Heritage Museum is in or beside town, so it is the easiest place to visit. Calumet Light is a tourist attraction a short drive away, and the EAA Aviation Museum is a museum a longer drive away.

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  • 43,243households
  • 41.9median age
  • 22%of adults have a degree
  • 9%below the poverty line
  • 21 mintypical commute
  • 9%work from home

What people in Fond du Lac County work in

  • Manufacturing24%
  • Schools, hospitals and social care20%
  • Shops (retail)10%
  • Building trades9%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment7%
  • Professional and business services6%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fond du Lac County had 44,880 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 25° and 9°; warmest in July, 80° and 61° 0° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 25° 9° F M A M J J 80° 61° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 25° and 9°; warmest in July, 80° and 61° 0° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 25° 9° F M A M J J 80° 61° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 38 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fond Du Lac Wwtp weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Fond du Lac County

  1. Mercury Marine Fond du LacAdminstration2,941
  2. Alliance Laundry Systems - Plant 1Floor sanding, washing, and polishing machines, commercial-type, manufacturing1,901
  3. Ahern Fond du Lac - CorporatePlumbing and heating contractors1,850
  4. St. Agnes HospitalGeneral hospital1,097FTE
  5. Fond du Lac School DistrictSchool district834FTE
  6. Lakeland CareSelf-help organizations for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities557
  7. C.D. Smith Home OfficeCommercial building construction general contractors554
  8. Charter CommunicationsWired telecommunication carriers496

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 115 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,845 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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

  1. Cold wavesRelatively high
  2. Strong windRelatively high
  3. HailRelatively moderate
  4. TornadoesRelatively moderate
  5. Inland floodingRelatively moderate
  6. Winter weatherRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Fond du Lac 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 Fond du Lac County and the Fond du Lac, WI metro.

Malone home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Malone $382,005 Wisconsin $337,196 United States $366,157
$200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Malone$382,005
  • Wisconsin$337,196
  • United States$366,157
Property tax, 2026 roll $3,028/yr median bill inside Malone, effective 0.86% of estimated value — current assessment rolls, AssessorSearch Data Lab, quality-gated against the county's official figures

Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.

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.

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Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

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Zip codes with a Malone address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Malone — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zip codes in Malone