Townsend, Wisconsin.
Typical home $348,535 (+10.0% in a year). Green Bay, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,165 (+175%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $31,563 +10%
- $316,972$348,535 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $124,807 +56%
- $223,729$348,535 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.
- Townsend$1,829
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Townsend, WI rose 10.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Townsend, Oconto County, Wisconsin
Townsend, in Oconto County, had 179 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Townsend is a very small community in Oconto County, with few residents and plenty of room between neighbors. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow through the season, while July brings the warmest days. Homes here are valued above what many people might expect for a place this size.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in shops. Across Oconto County, some of the largest workplaces are Saputo Cheese, the Oconto Falls Public School District and Cruisers Yachts. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Winslow Lake is a short drive away, as are Minertown-Oneva, an archaeological site, and the Mountain Fire Lookout Tower, a tourist attraction. A longer drive brings you to Governor Thompson State Park, a protected area, and to Kettlebowl, a ski area that suits the snowy winters.
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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 22° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 55°. About 61 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lakewood Northeast weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oconto County
- Saputo CheeseCheese spreads manufacturing447
- Oconto Falls Public School DistrictSchool district236FTE
- 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
- Diversified WoodcraftsSchool furniture manufacturing136
- GmspNapkins, table, made from purchased paper128
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,294 people in all across the county; Townsend has none of its own. 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.
Townsend home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Townsend$348,535
- 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.
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.
- Townsend17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Townsend address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Townsend — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.