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Place dossier plate
SheetWI-GREEN-BAY-WI · Green Bay, WI 106,585 pop · income 39th pct · 58 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Green Bay
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Green Bay on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Racine · lowest
55,705
Racine · lowest
55,705 median HH income
57.9% of the leader · rank #1
Pymatuning Ce… · near
62,542
Pymatuning Ce… · near
62,542 median HH income
65.0% of the leader · rank #2
Green Bay · this city
62,546
Green Bay · this city
62,546 median HH income
65.0% of the leader · rank #3
Yuma · near
62,546
Yuma · near
62,546 median HH income
65.0% of the leader · rank #4
Dresden · near
62,546
Dresden · near
62,546 median HH income
65.0% of the leader · rank #5
Langlois · near
62,546
Langlois · near
62,546 median HH income
65.0% of the leader · rank #6
Jurupa Valley · highest
96,190
Jurupa Valley · highest
96,190 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Green Bay on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 106,585.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Green Bay - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Green Bay places in the 39th percentile for household income and the 37th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
39th
percentile, household income
40th
percentile, home value
29th
percentile, median rent
37th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Green Bay, WI
106,585 people live in Green Bay, Wisconsin - a mid-sized U.S. city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $62,546 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 11.9%. Home values in Green Bay run a median of $191,500, and the median resident age is 35.7 years. Educational attainment runs 25.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 65.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 476 residential building permits were authorized in Green Bay (Building Boom), up 656% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Green Bay reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1807.3 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 45.7°F with 31.6 inches of precipitation per year and 55.6 inches of snowfall.
Living costs in Wisconsin run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Wisconsin at 94.1 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,097 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Wisconsin run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Commute times here average 17.3 minutes, with 75.9% driving alone and 8.5% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 59.1 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Green Bay's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to comparison shortlist to within-city variation to climate and hazard context to reported crime to population change to housing and income to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Green Bay, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Green Bay?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.3 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Which cities make useful reference points for Green Bay?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Wisconsin, the closest population matches are Kenosha (99,147 residents, $68,532 income); Racine (77,155 residents, $55,705 income); Appleton (74,873 residents, $77,450 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Rio Rancho, NM (106,533 residents); Concord, NC (106,518 residents); Davie, FL (106,412 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
What can 58 Census tracts reveal inside Green Bay?
PlainCities matches 58 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 45.7°F, with 31.6 inches of precipitation and 55.6 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Wisconsin is 59.1 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Green Bay?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1807.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 21% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Total reported rate
1807.3
Violent rate
495.1
Property rate
1312.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Green Bay growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -626 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 476 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
2020 estimate
107,301
2025 estimate
106,675
Period change
-0.6%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Green Bay?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 11.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.1×
Home value
$191,500
Household income
$62,546
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the education layer cover for Green Bay?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 60 public schools within the city match. 25.5% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
11.9%
Bachelor's degree+
25.5%
Matched public schools
60
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Below median income · poverty 11.9% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
94.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Wisconsin average
D
City profile score · Green Bay, WI
40/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living B-
94.1 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share C-
25.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$62,546
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
11.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
495 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Green Bay profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 68/100 (B-) · 94.1 index
Bachelor's+ share: 50/100 (C-) · 25.5%
Household income: 38/100 (F) · $62,546
Poverty rate: 32/100 (F) · 11.9%
Violent crime: 16/100 (F) · 495 /100k
Where Green Bay sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Green Bay's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Green Bay highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Green Bay, WI (this city): home $191,500, crime 1,807/100k
Rio Rancho, NM : home $273,300, crime 1,658/100k
Concord, NC : home $327,600, crime 1,264/100k
Nampa, ID : home $332,500, crime 1,095/100k
Boulder, CO : home $982,600, crime 3,055/100k
Jurupa Valley, CA : home $538,700, crime 2,703/100k
Kenosha, WI : home $210,500, crime 1,152/100k
Racine, WI : home $158,100, crime 1,495/100k
Appleton, WI : home $211,500, crime 1,549/100k
Waukesha, WI : home $286,600, crime 989/100k
Eau Claire, WI : home $228,000, crime 2,068/100k
Oshkosh, WI : home $168,400, crime 1,684/100k
How does Green Bay compare to other US cities?
Here's how Green Bay stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income39% higher than other cities
Home value40% pricier than other cities
Median rent29% pricier than other cities
Safety37% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Wisconsin, Green Bay ranks #164 of 202 Wisconsin cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Green Bay against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Wisconsin only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Wisconsin-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Green Bay near the bottom of Wisconsin's cities
Among the 761 Wisconsin cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Green Bay ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Green Bay only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#471 of 753
37th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 761
0th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Home Value
#337 of 754
55th percentile in Wisconsin
Poverty Rate
#126 of 761
83rd percentile in Wisconsin
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#294 of 761
61st percentile in Wisconsin
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Wisconsin only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
39th percentile nationally for median household income · 37th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Green Bay's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Green Bay's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Green Bay's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$191,500Among the most affordablemore affordable than 60% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Green Bay's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,013 of 15,516
More affordable than 55% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#126 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.1×, Green Bay sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,013 of 15,516 and #126 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$62,546Green Bay, WI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Green Bay, WI median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Green Bay, WI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)25.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
106,585
Median Income
$62,546
Median Home Value
$191,500
Median Age
35.7
Poverty Rate
11.9%
Labor force participation
65.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
25.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1807.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
495.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1312.2
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
45.7°F
Annual Precipitation
31.6"
Annual Snowfall
55.6"
Schools
Total Schools
60
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Green Bay's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
107,301 residents
2021
105,602 residents
2022
105,783 residents
2023
106,291 residents
2024
106,456 residents
2025
106,675 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
476
housing units authorized
Single-Family
42
detached homes
Multifamily
434
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
63
63
0
$18.0M
2020
323
71
252
$56.9M
2021
60
58
2
$17.0M
2022
37
37
0
$13.0M
2023
37
37
0
$13.2M
2024
476
42
434
$138.4M
Permit volume increased 656% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.3 minutes
Drive Alone
75.9%
Carpool
10.7%
Public Transit
1.0%
Walk
2.3%
Work from Home
8.5%
Other
1.6%
Based on 53,394 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Wisconsin statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Wisconsin at $225 (electricity about $100 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are Wisconsin statewide averages, not a meter reading for Green Bay. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Wisconsin's BEA cost-of-living index is 94.1 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Green Bay is $1,097/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Wisconsin statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 59.1 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Wisconsin statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Green Bay sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Green Bay compares to similar-size Wisconsin cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.