Rhine, Wisconsin.
Typical home $498,615 (+6.3% in a year). Sheboygan, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,490 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $29,667 +6%
- $468,947$498,615 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $124,710 +33%
- $373,905$498,615 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.
- Rhine$2,617
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Rhine, WI rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rhine, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
Rhine is a town of 2,139 people in Sheboygan County. Half its households earn more than $98,542 a year and half less, against $73,094 across Sheboygan County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Sheboygan County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rhine is a small town in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, where the population skews older than in most places and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line, though the typical home is also valued at a high price. Winters are cold, with January highs staying below freezing, and summers are warm, with July the warmest month; the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in other services, and in shops. Across Sheboygan County, some of the largest workplaces are Kohler Wisconsin, the Sheboygan Area School District and Sargento Foods. Commutes are fairly short, and a fair number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is low and little changed from a year earlier, and the number of jobs has held roughly steady.
Things to do. Road America, a race track, is a short drive away, as is Wade House Historic Site, a museum. For a longer outing, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center is a museum a longer drive away, and Kettle Moraine State Forest, a protected area, is also a longer drive away.
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- 893households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sheboygan County had 61,092 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sheboygan County Mem Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sheboygan County
- Kohler WisconsinHotels, resort, without casinos2,107
- Sheboygan Area School DistrictSchool district1,343FTE
- Bemis ManufacturingBathroom and toilet accessories, plastics, manufacturing1,080
- Sargento FoodsCheese manufacturing998
- Discovery EnergyPower generators manufacturing887
- Masters Gallery Foods, Inc - PlymouthCheese merchant wholesalers870
- JohnsonvilleMeat processes from carcasses780
- Rockline Industries780
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 160 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 24,504 people in all across the county; Rhine has one of its own. School districts come 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Sheboygan 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 Sheboygan County and the Sheboygan, WI metro.
Rhine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rhine$498,615
- 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.
- Rhine13
Zip codes with a Rhine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rhine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.