Niagara, Wisconsin.
Typical home $185,183 (+8.4% in a year). Marinette, WI-MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$586 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,301 +8%
- $170,882$185,183 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,648 +42%
- $130,535$185,183 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.
- Niagara$972
- 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 Niagara, WI rose 8.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Niagara, Marinette County, Wisconsin
Niagara is a city of 1,602 people in Marinette County. Half its households earn more than $60,994 a year and half less, against $63,809 across Marinette County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Marinette County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Niagara is a small city in Marinette County, on the Wisconsin side of the Menominee River, which marks the border with Michigan. Its residents are older than in most places, and most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Incomes are a little below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January highs and lows well below freezing, while July is warm. A fair amount of snow and rain or melted snow falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Marinette County, some of the largest workplaces are Waupaca Foundry, Johnson Controls and Aurora Medical Center - Bay Area. A four-year degree is held by a smaller share of adults than in much of the country, and most people have a fairly short trip to work, with some working from home. Unemployment in the county has risen a little over the past year, and the number of jobs there has barely changed.
Things to do. Fumee Lake and Lake Antoine are both lakes a short drive away, and Norway Speedway, a race track, is also close by. For time along the water, Menominee River State Park and Recreation Area is a protected area a short drive off. The Menominee River itself is a longer drive away for those who want to go farther.
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- 729households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marinette County had 17,631 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 57°. About 61 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Iron Mtn-kingsford Wwtp weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marinette County
- Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 4Iron foundries795
- Johnson ControlsManufacturing720
- Aurora Medical Center - Bay AreaGeneral hospital426FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters357
- Marinette School DistrictSchool district254FTE
- Veriha TruckingGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload252
- Kimberly-ClarkPaper towels made in paper mills238
- Samuel Pressure Vessel GroupCylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing216
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 41 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,750 people in all across the county; Niagara has one 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
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Marinette 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 Marinette County and the Marinette, WI-MI metro.
Niagara home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Niagara$185,183
- 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.
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.
- Niagara8
Zip codes with a Niagara address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Niagara — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.