Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Home to 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
The best of Dunkirk’s subject grades are an A− for health and incomes and an A for history. Its National Register listings include West School. Dunkirk has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Dunkirk beats most towns.
Ingebretson, Gaute, Loft House| Widest gap | Dunkirk | WI |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 8.8% | 12.1% |
Where Dunkirk’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Wisconsin), ordered by how far Dunkirk is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
The archive holds 1 old photo or paper going back to 1844 and 3 maps from 1890 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Dunkirk. Close and well known come first.
16 mi Stadium & arenaCamp Randall Stadium
16 mi Stadium & arenaKohl Center
21 mi State parkAztalan State Park
16 mi Zoo & aquariumHenry Vilas Zoo
15 mi GardenOlbrich Botanical Gardens
16 mi MuseumOverture Center for the ArtsCamp Randall Stadium: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain · Kohl Center: Pbrown111 at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Aztalan State Park: Joshua Mayer - Flickr user wackybadger, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Henry Vilas Zoo: Corey Coyle, CC BY 3.0 · Olbrich Botanical Gardens: Chief-O at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Overture Center for the Arts: Chief-O of English Wikipedia, Public domain
Who provides power, water and the rest in Dunkirk, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Dunkirk.
In Dunkirk, 30% of adults sleep under 7 hours, below both the Wisconsin town median (32%) and the median of U.S. towns (36%). 31% of Dunkirk adults have high blood pressure.
| Dunkirk | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 32% | 36% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 15% | 17% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 33% | 35% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 30% | 33% |
| What stands out | Dunkirk | WI |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 8.8% | 12.1% |
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 7.4% | 9.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Compared with just over four fifths of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage in Dunkirk is lower. 48% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by cold waves at 20%. Households locally have drawn federal disaster aid in 3 declared disasters, most recently in 2011.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Dunkirk’s income of the median household is $103,000, against $87,000 in Wisconsin’s towns and $80,000 across U.S. towns. No town among the 363 in Wisconsin we compare has a lower share of working residents who work in town than Dunkirk. It had 140 jobs in 2023, up 39 from 2013. For Dunkirk, the typical journey to work is 26 minutes.
| Dunkirk | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 0.4% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Median household income | $103,000 | $87,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 15% | 12% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
People 65 and older are 30% of residents (19% statewide); children under 18 are 14% of residents (21% statewide). Since 2020, Dunkirk has lost 4.2% of its people, to 1,798 in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. Wisconsin has a third of adults 25 and older with a bachelor’s degree or more; here it is 32%.
| Dunkirk | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 55.4 years | 42.1 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 30% | 20% | 18% |
| Under 18 | 14% | 21% | 22% |
52% women, 48% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.2 points. Across Wisconsin, 49.9% of residents are women.
| Dunkirk | WI | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 6.9% | 11.2% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 6.6% | 10.2% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 6.2% | 9.3% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 8.3% | 12.6% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 11.2% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 10% | 11.8% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 21.1% | 13.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 15.1% | 11.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 14.6% | 7.3% | 7% |
| No diploma | 3.4% | 6.4% | 10.4% |
| High school | 33.7% | 29.4% | 26% |
| Some college | 18.6% | 19.5% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 11.9% | 11.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 22.2% | 22% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 10.2% | 11.4% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,800, single groups can be off by several points
Expect July afternoons of 83° and January nights of 12°, with about 36 inches of snow a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
In 4 parks and preserves, walkers have 0.9 miles of trail.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Danky-Schleshorn Prairie | 0.7 mi | 11 |
| 2. Helen Johnson Trail | — | 2 |
| 3. Virgin Lake Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
None within 15 miles of Dunkirk; the nearest are
About 5 of every 100 Dunkirk residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Wisconsin.
2 places in Dunkirk on the National Register of Historic Places.
4 towns share a border with Dunkirk.
| Town | WI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunkirk | — | — | B− | — | B | A− |
| Stoughton | #133 | A− | C+ | B− | B | A− |
| Porter | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pleasant Springs | #66 | A | C+ | — | B | A− |
| Albion | — | — | C+ | — | B− | B+ |
Dunkirk and Albion have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Dunkirk, Pleasant Springs and Albion report no FBI crime data of their own. Porter isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Dunkirk with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Home to 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.
2 notable people were born here, including Ella Giles Ruddy and Robert D. Sundby.
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