Menasha, Wisconsin.
Typical home $315,199 (+4.9% in a year), asking rent $1,457 (+9.5%). Oshkosh-Neenah, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$966 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,784 +5%
- $300,415$315,199 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $84,922 +37%
- $230,276$315,199 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.
- Menasha$1,654
- 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 Menasha, WI rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Menasha, WI rose 9.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Menasha runs $963/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $974 in Feb 2025.
That is $2,420 a month against $1,457 rent: a $1,654 mortgage payment, plus $428 property tax and $337 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Menasha
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,420
- Renting$1,457
- Mortgage only$1,654
Property tax · $428/mo 1.63% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Winnebago County, WI
Insurance & upkeep · $337/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Menasha, Winnebago County, Wisconsin
Menasha is a city of 18,268 people in Winnebago County. Half its households earn more than $64,698 a year and half less, against $74,925 across Winnebago County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Winnebago County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Menasha is a small city on the Fox River country of eastern Wisconsin, beside Little Lake Butte des Morts. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home value is well above what rent would suggest for a first purchase, with renting still a real option in town. Household incomes run below the county's, and winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and July pleasantly warm.
Work. Manufacturing is the largest line of work among residents, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, then professional and business services and shops. Among the biggest workplaces in Menasha are the Menasha Joint School District, Transcontinental Packaging Menasha and Festival Foods. Commutes are fairly short, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Little Lake Butte des Morts is a lake in or beside town. A short drive away are High Cliff State Park, a protected area, and Gardens of the Fox Cities, a botanical garden. For a longer outing, Lake Winnebago is a larger lake a longer drive away.
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- 8,123households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Winnebago County had 93,391 jobs in 2025, 0.2% 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, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Menasha
- Menasha Joint School DistrictSchool district477FTE
- Transcontinental Packaging MenashaFlexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing287
- Festival FoodsRetail - grocery206
- Gold Cross AmbulanceAmbulance services, air or ground200
- Essity MenashaPaper mills194
- SonocoPaper125
- WOW Logistics - MenashaGeneral warehousing and storage110
- Gunderson Uniform and Linen 41 Main StIndustrial launderers72
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,646 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively 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 Winnebago 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 Winnebago County and the Oshkosh-Neenah, WI metro.
Menasha home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Menasha$315,199
- 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 9 Menasha listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Menasha11.12%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Menasha76
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Menasha28
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Menasha$285,220
- United States$370,717
Zip codes with a Menasha address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Menasha — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.