Mount Calvary, Wisconsin.
Typical home $360,669 (+5.0% in a year). Fond du Lac, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,082 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,089 +5%
- $343,579$360,669 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $102,376 +40%
- $258,293$360,669 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.
- Mount Calvary$1,893
- 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 Mount Calvary, WI rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Calvary, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
Mount Calvary is a village of 548 people in Fond du Lac County. Half its households earn more than $82,212 a year and half less, against $74,275 across Fond du Lac County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% 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 residents work in construction, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Calvary is a small village in Fond du Lac County, home to a close-knit community. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and incomes run above the county's, with fewer households living in poverty than you might expect. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in the building trades, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Fond du Lac County, some of the largest workplaces are Seneca Foods in Ripon, Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac and St. Agnes Hospital. A good number of residents work from home, and commutes are fairly typical for the region.
Things to do. A short drive away, Wade House Historic Site and the Malone Area Heritage Museum offer a look at local history, and the Milwaukee River is close by for time on the water. Calumet Light, a tourist attraction, is also a short drive. For a longer outing, Kettle Moraine State Forest is a protected area for walking and open space, and Road America, a well-known race track, draws visitors from far beyond the county.
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- 273households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What residents work in
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
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, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fond du Lac County
- Mercury Marine Fond du LacAdminstration2,941
- Alliance Laundry Systems - Plant 1Floor sanding, washing, and polishing machines, commercial-type, manufacturing1,901
- Ahern Fond du Lac - CorporatePlumbing and heating contractors1,850
- St. Agnes HospitalGeneral hospital1,097FTE
- Fond du Lac School DistrictSchool district834FTE
- Lakeland CareSelf-help organizations for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities557
- C.D. Smith Home OfficeCommercial building construction general contractors554
- 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 across the county; Mount Calvary has none of its own. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- 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.
Mount Calvary home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Calvary$360,669
- 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 Mount Calvary address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Calvary — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.