Whitelaw, Wisconsin.
Typical home $309,649 (+6.7% in a year). Manitowoc, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$939 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,536 +7%
- $290,113$309,649 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,021 +35%
- $229,627$309,649 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.
- Whitelaw$1,625
- 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 Whitelaw, WI rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Whitelaw, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
Whitelaw is a village of 737 people in Manitowoc County. Half its households earn more than $57,027 a year and half less, against $69,148 across Manitowoc County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Manitowoc County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Whitelaw is a small village in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, with a population that keeps most neighbors familiar with one another. Household incomes here are below the county's, and homes are valued well above what those incomes might suggest. Only a small share of adults hold a four-year degree, and a typical commute is a modest one. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in wholesale. Across Manitowoc County, some of the largest workplaces are Sargento Cheese, Manitowoc School District and Holy Family Memorial. Jobs across the county slipped a little last year, and unemployment there is slightly higher than a year ago.
Things to do. A short drive away are the USS Cobia, a museum built around a submarine, and Cherney Maribel Caves County Park, a tourist attraction, along with the Manitowoc River. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Lambeau Field, the stadium, and Road America, the race track. Point Beach State Forest, a protected area, is also a longer drive away.
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- 387households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Manitowoc County had 33,080 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 60°. About 35 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Manitowoc weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Manitowoc County
- Manitowoc School DistrictSchool district640FTE
- Sargento CheeseCheese manufacturing490
- PBN NextEra Energy Point BeachNuclear electric power generation392
- TennecoPistons and piston rings manufacturing367
- Holy Family MemorialGeneral hospital363FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters335
- Wisconsin Aluminum FoundryFoundries, aluminum326
- Lakeshore Technical CollegeTwo-year college319
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 111 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,728 people in all across the county; Whitelaw has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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 high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Manitowoc 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 Manitowoc County and the Manitowoc, WI metro.
Whitelaw home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Whitelaw$309,649
- 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.
- Whitelaw6
Zip codes with a Whitelaw address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Whitelaw — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.