Norway, Wisconsin.
Typical home $554,551 (+5.9% in a year). Racine, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,651 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $30,947 +6%
- $523,604$554,551 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $133,971 +32%
- $420,580$554,551 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.
- Norway$2,911
- 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 Norway, WI rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Norway, Racine County, Wisconsin
Norway is a town of 7,916 people in Racine County. Half its households earn more than $103,278 a year and half less, against $78,096 across Racine County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Racine County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Norway is a town in Racine County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and the people who live there tend to be older than in most places. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and snow a regular part of the season, while summers are comfortably warm in July.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and professional and business services also well represented. Across Racine County, some of the largest workplaces are Racine Unified School District, SC Johnson and InSinkErator. Commutes are fairly long, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. A longer drive brings you to Milwaukee, where the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Milwaukee County Zoo are among the best known places to visit. Geneva Lake is a longer drive away as well, a lake for time on the water or along its shore. For a quieter outing, Boerner Botanical Gardens offers a botanical garden, also a longer drive away.
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- 3,221households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Racine County had 75,873 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rochester Wwtp weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Racine County
- Racine Unified School DistrictSchool district2,700FTE
- Foxconn Industrial InternetPrinted circuit assemblies manufacturing1,516
- Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - ALLGeneral hospital1,093FTE
- CNH Industrial AmericaAdministrative services900
- SC JohnsonDisinfectants, household-type and industrial, manufacturing816
- InSinkEratorGarbage disposal units, household-type, manufacturing742
- SC JohnsonCorporate offices722
- NestleChocolate bars made from cocoa beans513
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 218 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 27,874 people in all across the county; Norway has one 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Racine 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 Racine County and the Racine, WI metro.
Norway home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Norway$554,551
- 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 Norway address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Norway — 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.