Oconto, Wisconsin.
Typical home $252,985 (+7.7% in a year). Green Bay, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$827 (+165%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,989 +8%
- $234,996$252,985 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,680 +44%
- $175,305$252,985 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$1,328
- 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, WI rose 7.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oconto, Oconto County, Wisconsin
Oconto is a city of 4,609 people in Oconto County. Half its households earn more than $61,506 a year and half less, against $75,049 across Oconto County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oconto is a small city on the shore of Green Bay, where the Oconto River runs through town. Residents tend to be older than in most places, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than across much of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Oconto are Cruisers Yachts, which builds boats, Oconto Hospital & Medical Center, and the Oconto Unified School District. The drive to work is a fairly typical one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Within town or right beside it, the Oconto River is open for walks along its banks, and Copper Culture State Park preserves an archaeological site. A longer drive away are Lambeau Field, one of the best known stadiums in the country, and Lake Noquebay, a lake for time on the water.
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- 2,135households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents 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, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oconto
- Cruisers Yachts / Pecor StreetBoat yards205
- Unlimited ServicesWire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants174
- Oconto Hospital & Medical CenterCritical access hospital156FTE
- Oconto Unified School DistrictSchool district141FTE
- GmspNapkins, table, made from purchased paper128
- LeTourneau PlasticsBuilding panels, corrugated and flat, plastics, manufacturing60
- Cruisers Yachts INC / Charles StreetYacht building, not done in shipyards46
- Oconto Health and RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities44
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 834 people in all. 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
- 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 home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oconto$252,985
- 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 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.
- Oconto20.29%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Oconto31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Oconto9
Zip codes with a Oconto address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oconto — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.