Best PlacesGreen Bay, WI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in the Green Bay metro, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Costs and crime read low across the board, which puts the choice down to which part suits you. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
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Green Bay ranks 62nd of 387 U.S. metro areas on the BestNeighborhood index. It earns the spot by being affordable and steady rather than flashy: everyday costs run well below the national average, and crime is low. The trade is childcare costs: the nearest large city and its jobs, flights, and culture are a drive away.
The best neighborhoods in the Green Bay metro
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
The best areas in Green Bay
The towns and districts of the Green Bay metro, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood in each, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the metro.
Howard & Hobart
Local pay stretches further, incomes run higher, and crime runs lower.
Wrightstown
Tree cover is thinner and biking is worse.
DePere & Allouez
More adults hold degrees, though fewer households have young kids.
Bellevue, Denmark & Kewaunee
Fewer homes sit empty.
Suamico & Little Suamico
It is quieter, though streets are more car-dependent.
New Franken, Algoma & Luxemburg
Fewer residents vote and advertised internet is slower.
Oconto
Health outcomes score lower and commutes are longer.
Pulaski, Oconto Falls & Sobieski
Prices have run up more and big-city amenities are further off.
Downtown Green Bay
Homes cost less, though health care is harder to reach.
Green Bay shows why a single number is not enough. Some neighborhoods score in the bottom 12% of the country and others in the top 1%. Pick the area first, then the home.
Green Bay's strengths and weaknesses
Green Bay ranks where it does because the parts of life that are hardest to change mostly work here. Low disaster risk is the standout, in the top 3% of metro areas. Cheap car insurance and heat safety follow.
The drawbacks are real but narrow. Childcare costs, property taxes, and noise hold the score down. The measures below break that down, and the map shows how much of it holds street by street.
Where Green Bay ranks high
- Disaster safetyBetter than 97% of metro areas
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 97% of metro areas
- Heat safetyBetter than 94% of metro areas
- Healthcare accessBetter than 93% of metro areas
- Voter turnoutBetter than 90% of metro areas
Where Green Bay ranks low
- Cheap childcare$1,219 a month, better than only 19% of metro areas
- Low property taxBetter than only 24% of metro areas
- QuietBetter than only 24% of metro areas
- Big-city accessBetter than only 28% of metro areas
- Cell coverageBetter than only 30% of metro areas
What it costs to buy a home in Green Bay
A household needs to earn about $75,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Green Bay home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $84,429, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Green Bay's effective rate of 1.30%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Green Bay
Green Bay's age mix sits close to the national median, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Green Bay.
Who works in Green Bay, and how
Work in Green Bay centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 83%
- Work from home 13%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Green Bay
Green Bay has more parkland per resident than 94% of metro areas. That concentrates in some parts of Green Bay and thins out in others, which the map shows.
Is Green Bay growing, and who is moving in?
Green Bay has grown about 7% over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from Appleton, WI.
Where new residents come from
Where people leaving Green Bay go
Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.
What the weather is like in Green Bay, month by month
Green Bay sees roughly 95 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 84 degrees. January highs sit near 30, with lows near 14. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30° | 22° | 14° |
| April | 56° | 44° | 34° |
| July | 84° | 72° | 60° |
| October | 63° | 51° | 41° |
Flying in and out of Green Bay
The nearest airport, Green Bay/Austin Straubel International, is about 6 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is General Mitchell International, about 108 miles away.
The best schools in and around Green Bay
Schools across Green Bay average a C+, better than 55% of metro areas.
Top elementary schools
- Leonardo Da Vinci School For Gifted LearnersA+ · 75% proficient
- Susie C Altmayer ElementaryA · 67% proficient
- Sevastopol ElementaryA · 63% proficient
Top middle schools
- Sevastopol MiddleA · 65% proficient
- Luxemburg-casco MiddleA · 60% proficient
- Foxview IntermediateA− · 56% proficient
Top high schools
- West De Pere HighB− · 45% proficient
- Pulaski HighB− · 45% proficient
- De Pere HighB− · 40% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Green Bay school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Green Bay measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Green Bay against the other 386 metro areas.
Who Green Bay suits
Families
Schools land around the 55th percentile and crime safety beats 81%.
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 83% of metro areas, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 13% already work from home.
Retirees
The weather beats 55% of metro areas and health care access beats 93%.
Common questions about living in Green Bay
Is Green Bay a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Green Bay ranks 62nd of 387 metro areas. It scores highest on low disaster risk, cheap car insurance, and heat safety, and lowest on childcare costs and property taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Green Bay expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $269,538. The overall cost of living runs about 15% below the national average. Set against a $84,429 median income, cost of living beats 83% of metro areas.
Is Green Bay safe?
Yes, Green Bay is safer than 81% of metro areas. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $275 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Green Bay?
July highs average about 84 degrees, and January highs near 30 with lows near 14. That works out to about 95 pleasant days a year, more than 55% of metro areas.
What are the best neighborhoods in Green Bay?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Howard & Hobart, Wrightstown, and DePere & Allouez. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Green Bay good for families?
Schools beat 55% of metro areas, crime safety beats 81%, and childcare runs $1,219 a month.
Is Green Bay good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 83% of metro areas, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 78% of metro areas. About 13% of workers already work from home.
Compare Green Bay with other metro areas
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Green Bay. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Green Bay represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Green Bay detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Green Bay: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Green Bay: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Green Bay: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Green Bay: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Green Bay detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program: population growth and net migration behind the population-change section.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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