Osborn, Wisconsin.
Typical home $464,599 (+7.6% in a year). Appleton, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,486 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $33,004 +8%
- $431,595$464,599 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $141,922 +44%
- $322,676$464,599 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.
- Osborn$2,439
- 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 Osborn, WI rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Osborn, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
Osborn is a town of 1,200 people in Outagamie County. Half its households earn more than $92,727 a year and half less, against $85,069 across Outagamie County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Outagamie County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Osborn is a small town in Outagamie County, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest. Precipitation is moderate through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in the building trades, manufacturing, schools, hospitals and social care, and in banks, insurance and property. Across Outagamie County, the largest workplaces include the Appleton Area School District, Fox Valley Technical College and Gulfstream Aerospace. A good number of people work from home, and those who commute spend a fairly typical amount of time getting to work.
Things to do. The better-known places nearby are a longer drive away. Lambeau Field is a famous stadium, the Fox River offers time by the water, and the National Railroad Museum is a museum for anyone who likes trains. Each makes a good outing from town.
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- 410households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 23%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Outagamie County had 108,523 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 60°. About 61 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Green Bay Weather Office weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Outagamie County
- Appleton Area School DistrictSchool district1,976FTE
- Fox Valley Technical CollegeTwo-year college1,424
- Gulfstream AerospaceAircraft manufacturing1,364
- Ascension NE Wisconsin-st. ElizabethGeneral hospital1,057FTE
- School Specialty GreenvilleSchool equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers876
- Thedacare Regional Medical Center APGeneral hospital830FTE
- The Boldt CompanyAddition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building755
- Miller Electric Mfg. LLC - Main PlantArc welding equipment manufacturing747
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 315 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 39,769 people in all across the county; Osborn has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Outagamie 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 Outagamie County and the Appleton, WI metro.
Osborn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Osborn$464,599
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Osborn6
Zip codes with a Osborn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Osborn — 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.