The story of this market
The typical home in Oconto County, Wisconsin sells for about $329,900, or $182 per square foot.
Prices are up +3.51% from a year ago, so sellers still have some momentum. Homes take about 64 days to sell, which is slow. Over the long run, values in this county have grown 142% since 2000. Last year 9 of 11 neighborhoods saw prices rise, so the story isn't the same street to street. The biggest natural hazard here is lightning, which FEMA rates very high. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $1,014 a month.
HUD sets the fair market rent for a 2-bedroom at $1,014 a month. FEMA's National Risk Index rates overall hazard risk here as Relatively Moderate.
Price climate
Every year of price change, 2000–2025
+2.5%
2025
Each stripe is one year's median price change across the area's census tracts (FHFA repeat-sales index). Deep blue is a strong gain year, red a falling year. Best: 2022 (+16.4%). Worst: 2010 (-4%). Hover to read a year.
Monthly price momentum
Home values since 2015
+5.2%
WI · past 12 months
Freddie Mac House Price Index, single-family homes, monthly through 2026-08. Each line starts at 100 in January 2015, so a reading of 180 means prices are up 80% since then.
Rent benchmark
Fair market rent by size
$1,375
3-bed / month
HUD Fair Market Rents, fiscal 2027, for this county. A typical rent for a modest unit, used to set housing-voucher payments.
Neighborhood price trend
Long-run price trend, 2000–2025
+2.5%
2025 change
FHFA repeat-sales index, median of 11 census tracts in this county (2000 = 100). Bars are each year's median change.
Natural hazard exposure
The area's risk shape
72
Relatively Moderate
FEMA National Risk Index. Each spoke is a hazard ranked nationally, where 100 is the most exposed. Expected annual loss: $22,432,917.
Oconto County, Wisconsin
Oconto County's residential market maintains solid fundamentals, supported by sustained recreational demand for cabins and waterfront properties alongside exurban commuter growth in the southern portion near Green Bay. Median home prices have experienced steady low-to-mid single-digit appreciation while inventory has shown modest replenishment, returning balance between buyers and sellers. The high overall housing vacancy rate of roughly 30% reflects a large seasonal vacation-home stock that insulates the permanent resident base.
No ARED distress-ledger coverage for this county yet — the foreclosure ingest rotates the national county directory, and filings appear here once the county's posted notices are read. Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.
Select a city to expand its ZIP intel reports beneath · 11 cities · 13 ZIP reports
Median prices moved up 3.7% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 50 days on market with 1.0 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
5% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 34.77% of asking — demand is holding steady.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 3.4% · poverty 8.2% — a stable, low-distress profile.
ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Aggregate published statistics for this county — never individual records, and never an attribute of any individual property or resident.
Deterministic aggregate of 12 researched ZIP reports of 13 — sales_count-weighted (population fallback); per point, children lacking the value or its weight are excluded. Tax rates, sentiment and context notes are tier-native and never roll.
Oconto County, Wisconsin — researched county-level history with a deterministic 1 / 3 / 5-year projection
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 9.0%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
No researched properties in this county yet — the property base layer populates as property research runs, and each property feeds its ZIP's roll-up.
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| 54104 | Town of Abrams | $305,000 | $212 | +5.6% | 38 | 100.9% | 14% | 3.2 | 974 | $1,500 | researched Sep 23 |
| 54114 | Crivitz | $262,000 | $145 | +10.3% | 52 | 96% | 12% | 5.1 | 72 | $733 | researched Sep 30 |
| 54124 | City of Gillett | $269,900 | $146 | — | 45 | 100% | — | — | 1,275 | $775 | researched Sep 23 |
| 54138 | Town of Lakewood | $249,900 | $168 | +4.2% | 82 | 97.5% | 12.5% | 12 | 48 | $1,150 | researched Sep 23 |
| 54139 | Village of Lena | $254,714 | $201 | +6.2% | 38 | 100% | 29% | 5.8 | 1,275 | $735 | researched Sep 23 |
| 54149 | Town of Little Suamico | $369,000 | $185 | +21% | 42 | 98.5% | 12% | 4.2 | 71 | $1,632 | researched Sep 23 |
| 54150 | Neopit | $280,000 | $145 | +14.7% | 89 | 100.9% | 14% | 2.5 | 748 | $542 | researched Sep 23 |
| 54153 | City of Oconto | $320,000 | $158 | +5.5% | 68 | 99.3% | 14% | 3.2 | 22 | $800 | researched Sep 23 |
| 54154 | City of Oconto Falls | $299,900 | $140 | — | 51 | 100% | — | 25 | 25 | $692 | researched Sep 23 |
| 54171 | Town of Little Suamico | $654,000 | $203 | +3.8% | 41 | 100.9% | 14% | 3.5 | 74 | $1,293 | researched Sep 23 |
Figures are each ZIP report's own latest research — the county roll-up aggregates them sales_count-weighted (population fallback); ZIPs cycle quarterly.
Oconto County consistently maintains lower violent and property crime rates than both Wisconsin and national averages, driven largely by its rural and small-town composition. Law enforcement is provided predominantly by the Oconto County Sheriff's Office alongside municipal police departments in Oconto and Oconto Falls.
Public education is served by several independent consolidated school districts such as Oconto, Oconto Falls, Suring, and Gillett, generally earning solid ratings on state report cards from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Many families value favorable student-to-teacher ratios and active career-technical education programs.
Hazard risks are primarily tied to localized riverine flooding along the Oconto and Peshtigo river basins, as well as seasonal winter ice dams and localized high-wind events. Wildfire risk exists in the heavily forested northern reaches within the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, but structural losses remain historically low.
Southern Oconto County, especially Little Suamico, experiences steady bedroom-community residential expansion driven by proximity to the Green Bay metropolitan labor market. Economic activity is anchored by specialized manufacturing, healthcare, timber processing, agriculture, and outdoor tourism.
Property taxes are calculated using local mill rates established by municipal, county, technical college, and school district taxing jurisdictions against assessed market values equalized by the Wisconsin Department of Revenue. Primary residences qualify for the Wisconsin School Levy and First Dollar tax credits, as well as the standard lottery credit.
Oconto County's economy is supported by light manufacturing, food processing, timber, and public administration, heavily complemented by recreation and hospitality. The southern corridor acts as an exurban bedroom community directly benefiting from the larger Green Bay employment base.
Primary arterial connectivity is anchored by US Highway 41 along the Green Bay shore and US Highway 141 running north-south through the county center, supplemented by State Highways 22, 32, and 64. Public mass transit is limited to specialized county transit-van services for seniors and disabled residents.
Wisconsin does not use a single centralized county appraisal district; property assessments are established by municipal assessors retained by individual towns, villages, and cities, equalized annually by the Wisconsin Department of Revenue to maintain statutory market conformity.
Parcels are subject to overlapping taxing jurisdictions including Oconto County, local school districts, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) district, and specialized inland lake protection and rehabilitation districts in lake-heavy northern townships.
Property insurance conditions remain relatively stable with rates generally below national benchmarks, although seasonal wind, severe convective storms, and localized winter freeze-thaw damage drive underwriting scrutiny. Waterfront and riverfront owners face escalating FEMA National Flood Insurance Program premiums.
- Bay Beach Amusement Park4.720.9 mi
- Tundra Lodge3.723.4 mi
- Dave & Buster's Green Bay424.3 mi
- Get Air Trampoline Park3.924.9 mi
- Chuck E. Cheese4.222.8 mi
- Lambeau Field4.823.1 mi
- Resch Center™4.623.2 mi
- Tundra Lodge3.723.4 mi
- Green Bay Botanical Garden4.821.3 mi
- Stadium View Bar, Restaurant, & Event Halls4.423.3 mi
- NEW Zoo & Adventure Park4.512.5 mi
- Wequiock Falls County Park4.519.4 mi
- Buzz Social4.316.8 mi
- Brown County WI Bay Shore Park4.617.2 mi
- Oconto City Park4.47.8 mi
- National Railroad Museum4.724.2 mi
- Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame & Museum4.823 mi
- Neville Public Museum4.321.8 mi
- Heritage Hill State Historical Park4.724.9 mi
- The Children's Museum of Green Bay4.320.9 mi
- Wequiock Falls County Park4.519.4 mi
- Brown County WI Bay Shore Park4.617.2 mi
- Oconto City Park4.47.8 mi
- Holtwood Sporting Complex & Park4.47.1 mi
- Brown County WI Barkhausen Waterfowl Preserve4.816.2 mi
- Wave Pointe Marina & Resort4.322.1 mi
- Menominee Marina4.627.5 mi
- Marine 3654.915.1 mi
- Patriot Golf Club4.45.2 mi
- Pine Acres Golf Course4.63.5 mi
- Parkway Golf And Restaurant4.518.3 mi
- Irish Greens Golf Club & Restaurant4.37.2 mi
- Blaser's Acres4.33.6 mi
- Bearcats Fish House - Green Bay4.819.1 mi
Theme parks, venues, golf, airports, museums, water and shopping across the area from Google Maps, ranked by popularity within the radius shown.
The amenity base that shapes daily life and property demand in this county — what residents actually live with, and what the pipeline is adding.
Spanning extensive acreage in the northern half of the county, it provides residents and visitors with hundreds of miles of multi-use trails, dispersed camping, hunting, and pristine freshwater lakes.
A premier county recreational hub offering prime boating, musky and walleye fishing, scenic hiking trails, and cross-country skiing across contiguous public woodland.
Located along the Oconto River, this state park preserves an ancient burial ground of the prehistoric Copper Culture Indians with walking trails and archaeological exhibits.
Situated on the shores of Green Bay, this municipal harbor provides boat launches, fishing piers, open waterfront picnic spaces, and direct deep-water access for recreational vessels.
Retrieved via Census Reporter and Census Bureau County Profile for Oconto County, WI (FIPS 55083).