Best PlacesKewaunee County, WI Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in Kewaunee County, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Kewaunee County ranks 427th of 3,144 U.S. counties on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and internet speeds rank lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Kewaunee County

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Kewaunee County area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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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 Kewaunee County

The parts of Kewaunee County, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the county.

#1

Luxemburg

Fewer homes sit empty, more households have young kids, and schools score higher.

WorseBetter
72nd nationally
#2

Kewaunee

WorseBetter
56th nationally
#3

Algoma

More residents vote, though local pay stretches less far.

WorseBetter
54th nationally

Scores across Kewaunee County run from about the 51st to the 83rd percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.


Kewaunee County's strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%Cheap car insurance
Top 3%Low disaster risk
Top 5%Health care access
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Kewaunee County with other counties.

Where Kewaunee County ranks high

  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than 98% of counties
  • Disaster safetyBetter than 97% of counties
  • Healthcare accessBetter than 96% of counties
  • Heat safetyBetter than 91% of counties
  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 89% of counties

Where Kewaunee County ranks low

  • Internet speedBetter than only 7% of counties
  • Low property taxBetter than only 14% of counties
  • State infrastructureBetter than only 32% of counties
  • Air qualityBetter than only 34% of counties
  • TransitBetter than only 35% of counties

What it costs to buy a home in Kewaunee County

A household needs to earn about $64,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Kewaunee County home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $83,901, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$64,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,495
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $228,791 home
Median rent
$888
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,167
Property tax$252
Homeowners insurance$76

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 Kewaunee County's effective rate of 1.32%, 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.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Kewaunee County

Kewaunee County runs older than the country.

Median age
45
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
22%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.5
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1820%
18 to 3419%
35 to 4919%
50 to 6420%
65 and older22%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Kewaunee County.


Who works in Kewaunee County, and how

Work in Kewaunee County centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
10%
below the national average
Unemployment
2.8%
below the national average
Job growth
+2.0%
/y 2019-2023, near the national pace

Largest industries

Manufacturing21%
Health care & social15%
Retail trade9%
Construction8%
Education8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 86%
  • Work from home 10%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 4%

Life in Kewaunee County

Kewaunee County has more restaurants and bars per resident than 66% of counties and more parkland per resident than 75% of counties. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Kewaunee County and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
114
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 55.4 per 10,000 residents, more than 66% of counties
Coffee shops
8
about 3.9 per 10,000 residents, more than 32% of counties
Parkland
150 acres
about 7.3 acres per 1,000 residents, more than 75% of counties

Is Kewaunee County growing, and who is moving in?

Kewaunee County has grown about 2% over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from the rest of the Green Bay, WI metro.

Population growth
+2%
over the decade, vs about 6% nationally
Population
20,751
up from 20,341
Population by year. Source: U.S. Census Population Estimates Program.

Where new residents come from

The rest of the Green Bay, WI metro253 / yr
Chicago, IL79 / yr
Langlade County, WI69 / yr
Door County, WI58 / yr
Columbiana County, OH35 / yr

Where people leaving Kewaunee County go

The rest of the Green Bay, WI metro313 / yr
Door County, WI133 / yr
Yuma, AZ76 / yr
Portage County, WI53 / yr
Manitowoc County, WI49 / yr

Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.


What the weather is like in Kewaunee County, month by month

Kewaunee County sees roughly 111 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 79 degrees. January highs sit near 28, with lows near 16. The comfortable stretch runs June through September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January28°22°16°
April50°41°35°
July79°70°62°
October58°51°44°

Flying in and out of Kewaunee County

The nearest airport, Green Bay/Austin Straubel International, is about 27 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is General Mitchell International, about 110 miles away.

Nearest airport
GRB
Green Bay/Austin Straubel International, about 27 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
165th-busiest in the US, 25 nonstop destinations
Average drive
38 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Kewaunee County

Schools across Kewaunee County average a C+, better than 48% of counties.

Top elementary schools

Top middle schools

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Kewaunee County school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Kewaunee County 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 Kewaunee County against the other 3,143 counties.


Who Kewaunee County suits

Families

Schools land around the 48th percentile and crime safety beats 88%.

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Remote workers

Cost of living against local pay beats 89% of counties and 10% already work from home.

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Retirees

The weather beats 68% of counties, health care access beats 96%, and it is quieter than 67%.

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Common questions about living in Kewaunee County

Is Kewaunee County a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Kewaunee County ranks 427th of 3,144 counties. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, low disaster risk, and health care access, and lowest on internet speeds and property taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Kewaunee County expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $228,791. The overall cost of living runs about 16% below the national average. Set against a $83,901 median income, cost of living beats 89% of counties.

Is Kewaunee County safe?

Yes, Kewaunee County is safer than 88% of counties. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $261 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Kewaunee County?

July highs average about 79 degrees, and January highs near 28 with lows near 16. That works out to about 111 pleasant days a year, more than 68% of counties.

What are the best neighborhoods in Kewaunee County?

Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Luxemburg, Kewaunee, and Algoma. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.


Compare Kewaunee County with other counties


Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Kewaunee County. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Kewaunee County 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.

Kewaunee County detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Kewaunee County: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Kewaunee County: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Kewaunee County: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Kewaunee County: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Kewaunee County detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program: population growth and net migration behind the population-change section.
  3. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  4. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  5. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  6. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  7. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  8. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  9. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  10. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  11. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  12. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  13. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.