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The median home value in Appleton, WI is $309,058 as of 2026-07-31, up 6.01% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$309,058
Year-over-Year
+6.01%
Population
74,394
Appleton ranks #85 of 124 Wisconsin cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 12.1% below the state's city median of $351,517. It sits in Outagamie County, where the county-wide median is $348,184.
Median household income in Appleton is $80,483, so the typical home value is about 3.8× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Appleton police recorded a violent crime rate of 202 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,347 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Appleton, that value is $309,058. That's up 6.01% from a year earlier. It is about 12.1% below the typical Wisconsin city tracked here.
Homes in Appleton are cheaper than Outagamie County as a whole, where the median is $348,184 — a difference of about 11.2%.
Median household income here is $80,483, so the typical home value is about 3.8× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Appleton police reported 202 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 74,394. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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