Home values, rents and more in the Appleton metro area
September 2026 figures from Zillow and the U.S. Census Bureau · updated 2026-11-07
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How the Appleton metro compares
The typical home in the Appleton metro area is worth about $349,000, according to the Zillow Home Value Index for September 2026. Home values in the Appleton metro are 3% above the typical value in Wisconsin ($337,000) and 5% below the U.S. typical value ($366,000).
Over the past year, home values in the Appleton metro rose 5.2%, compared with +5.1% in Wisconsin and +1.2% nationally.
Typical rent is $1,197 a month (Zillow Observed Rent Index), 17% below Wisconsin ($1,437) and 38% below the U.S. ($1,932). Rents rose 6.8% over the past year.
The median household income is $85,825, against $77,485 in Wisconsin and $80,734 in the U.S. (Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–24).
About 249,876 people live in the Appleton metro (Census Bureau estimate for July 2025).
The Appleton metro has the 242nd-highest typical home value of the 923 metro areas in the United States and the 5th-highest of 26 in Wisconsin with Zillow figures.
Part of: Wisconsin
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Nearby metro areas
Counties in the Appleton metro
Cities in the Appleton metro
- Appleton, WI $305,000
- Grand Chute, WI $466,000
- Kaukauna, WI $314,000
- Harrison, WI $456,000
- Greenville, WI $474,000
- Little Chute, WI $305,000
- Kimberly, WI $283,000
- Buchanan, WI $420,000
- Freedom, WI $431,000
- Oneida, WI $395,000
- Chilton, WI $310,000
- Center, WI $472,000
- Combined Locks, WI $343,000
- Seymour, WI $303,000
- Hortonville, WI $335,000
- Ellington, WI $450,000
- Vandenbroek, WI $453,000
- Black Creek, WI $309,000
- Cicero, WI $407,000
- Osborn, WI $465,000
- Bovina, WI $385,000
- Shiocton, WI $254,000
- Maine, WI $377,000
- Dale, WI $425,000
- Bear Creek, WI $261,000
Sources
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), all homes, middle tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, September 2026. Rents: Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), seasonally adjusted. Population: Census population estimates (July 2025) for states, metros and counties; ACS 2020–24 for cities and ZIP codes. Income: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–24 5-year estimates. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files. Compiled by Home Economics.
"Typical" is Zillow's middle-tier value (homes between the 35th and 65th percentiles), not a median sale price. Changes are over the 12 months to September 2026.