Rushford, Wisconsin.
Typical home $291,149 (+2.6% in a year). Oshkosh-Neenah, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$752 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,288 +3%
- $283,860$291,149 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,811 +11%
- $262,338$291,149 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.
- Rushford$1,528
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.
Typical home values in Rushford, WI rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rushford, Winnebago County, Wisconsin
Rushford is a town of 1,623 people in Winnebago County. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Winnebago County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rushford is a small town in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, where residents are older than in most American communities and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Poverty is uncommon, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold, with January highs staying below freezing and lows dropping well down toward zero, while July brings warm summer days. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly typical amount for the Midwest across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Winnebago County, some of the largest workplaces are CR Meyer, Kimberly-Clark and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a modest number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Water is close at hand: Rush Lake, Lake Butte des Morts and Lake Poygan are all a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Lake Winnebago, the largest of the area's lakes, and to the EAA Aviation Museum, one of the better-known museums in the region.
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- 637households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Winnebago County had 93,391 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Berlin Wwtp weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Winnebago County
- CR Meyer - CorporateIndustrial building construction, general contractors2,335
- Kimberly-ClarkCorporate offices1,621
- Miron Construction CoAddition, alteration and renovation for-sale builders, commercial and institutional building1,593
- University of Wisconsin-OshkoshUniversity or college1,425
- Oshkosh Area School DistrictSchool district1,299FTE
- VocationalManufacturing plant1,188
- Plexus Manufacturing Solutions - NeenahLoaded computer boards manufacturing875
- Neenah Joint School DistrictSchool district797FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 249 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 36,458 people in all across the county; Rushford has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Winnebago 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 Winnebago County and the Oshkosh-Neenah, WI metro.
Rushford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rushford$291,149
- 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.
- Rushford6
Zip codes with a Rushford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rushford — 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.