Oconto Falls, Wisconsin.
Typical home $295,707 (+8.1% in a year). Green Bay, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$960 (+162%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,137 +8%
- $273,570$295,707 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $90,652 +44%
- $205,055$295,707 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.
- Oconto Falls$1,552
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Oconto Falls, WI rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oconto Falls, Oconto County, Wisconsin
Oconto Falls is a city of 2,957 people in Oconto County. Half its households earn more than $51,228 a year and half less, against $75,049 across Oconto County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Oconto County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Oconto County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oconto Falls is a small city in northeastern Wisconsin, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical household incomes run well below the county's. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Precipitation is fairly generous across the year, much of it falling as snow in winter.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in town are the Oconto Falls Public School District, St. Clare Memorial Hospital and ST Paper. Commutes are on the longer side, and some people work from home. Unemployment in the county has edged up from a year earlier, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. For a day out, Lake Noquebay offers a chance to be on the water, and the Oconto River and the Peshtigo River are both within a longer drive. Copper Culture State Park, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away and gives a look at the area's early history. Lambeau Field, a stadium and the best known place on the list, is likewise a longer drive.
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- 1,451households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Oconto County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Oconto County had 9,091 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 52 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oconto West weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oconto Falls
- Oconto Falls Public School DistrictSchool district236FTE
- St Clare Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital104FTE
- ST PaperPaper products made in paper mills102
- Synergy Senior CareSkilled nursing facilities92
- McDermid TransportationGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload67
- TechniplyHardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing39
- The Cottages At MeadowlandsAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 440 people in all. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Oconto 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 Oconto County and the Green Bay, WI metro.
Oconto Falls home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oconto Falls$295,707
- 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 5 Oconto Falls listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Oconto Falls19.10%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Oconto Falls23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Oconto Falls7
Zip codes with a Oconto Falls address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oconto Falls — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.