Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,562, incorporated in 1964.
Egg Harbor’s best subject grades are an A for schools and an A+ for civic life; its weakest is a C for cost of living. 36% of residents are 65 or older in Egg Harbor, above both Wisconsin’s towns (20%) and U.S. towns (18%). On hazard risk, just 59 of Wisconsin’s 879 towns do better. On civic life, just 43 of Wisconsin’s 869 towns do better. Egg Harbor has 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them LAKELAND (steam screw) Shipwreck and Murphy Farms Number 1. Egg Harbor has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Egg Harbor beats most towns.
LAKELAND (steam screw) ShipwreckWhere Egg Harbor’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 Egg Harbor is from typical.
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Census counts: 184 in 1970, 358 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1871 and 2 maps from 1960 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Egg Harbor, 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 Egg Harbor.
Compared with 94% of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage in Egg Harbor is lower. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 59% come from inland flooding and 25% from cold waves. One flood insurance claim has been paid here since 2014.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In Egg Harbor, 14% of residents are under 18, below both the Wisconsin town median (21%) and the median of U.S. towns (22%). This Wisconsin town is growing: up 6.9% since 2020, to 1,562 residents (2025 estimate). The share of adults 25 and older in Egg Harbor who hold a bachelor’s degree or more: 41%.
| Egg Harbor | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 59.3 years | 42.1 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 14% | 21% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 41% | 32% | 29% |
49% women, 51% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±5.1 points. Across Wisconsin, 49.9% of residents are women. Among residents 75 and older, 62% are men (WI 43%).
| Egg Harbor | WI | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 7.2% | 11.2% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 6.7% | 10.2% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 6.2% | 9.3% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 4.5% | 12.6% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.1% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 8% | 11.8% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 21.2% | 13.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 16% | 11.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 20.2% | 7.3% | 7% |
| No diploma | 9.1% | 6.4% | 10.4% |
| High school | 21.7% | 29.4% | 26% |
| Some college | 24.3% | 19.5% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 3.6% | 11.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 25% | 22% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 16.3% | 11.4% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,600, single groups can be off by several points
The top destinations are Sturgeon Bay (22%), Gibraltar (9%) and Egg Harbor (8%). Commuting out is the norm locally: 6% of working residents work locally. The town had 300 jobs in 2023, up 31 from 2013. For half of commuters, work is under 14 miles away.
| Egg Harbor | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 21 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $75,000 | $87,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 14% | 12% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 8.9% | 6.4% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Home values are up 3.4% over the year to September 2026. 92% of households own their home in Egg Harbor. Also worth knowing: in Egg Harbor, the midpoint rent is $1,083 a month.
| Egg Harbor | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 92% | 74% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,083 a month | $1,078 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Egg Harbor has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 77°, January nights drop to 12° and about 57 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
12% of Egg Harbor adults report frequent mental distress. Against the Wisconsin average, Egg Harbor comes out ahead on 14 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 7. Among 358 Wisconsin towns, just 3 have a lower share of adults who feel lonely than Egg Harbor.
| Egg Harbor | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 15% | 17% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 30% | 33% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 32% | 36% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 33% | 35% |
| What stands out | Egg Harbor | WI |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 6% | 9.7% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7.7% | 12.1% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 13.1% | 8.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The biggest place to walk is Bay Shore Blufflands Nature Preserve, 173 acres with 1.5 miles of trail. Walkers can cover 19 miles of trail in 5 parks and preserves. Egg Harbor’s trail network density comes in at 0.2 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Lautenbach Woods Nature Preserve | 1.8 mi | 153 |
| 2. Oak Road Nature Preserve | 1.8 mi | 147 |
| 3. Bay Shore Blufflands Nature Preserve | 1.5 mi | 173 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
None within 15 miles of Egg Harbor; the nearest are
About 3 of every 100 Egg Harbor residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Wisconsin.
Village in Wisconsin, United States
Egg Harbor is a village in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 358 at the 2020 census. It is adjacent to the Town of Egg Harbor and the Town of Gibraltar on the Door Peninsula, a popular Upper Midwest vacation destination. The village was incorporated in 1964. The harbor was known to the Potawatomi as Che-bah-ye-sho-da-ning, or "ghost door".
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7 towns share a border with Egg Harbor.
| Town | WI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egg Harbor · Egg Harbor | — | — | C | — | A | B+ |
| Jacksonport | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gibraltar | — | — | C | — | A | B+ |
| Gardner | — | — | D | — | B+ | B− |
| Peshtigo | #317 | C | B | — | C− | B− |
| Sevastopol | #204 | B | C− | — | A+ | B |
| Baileys Harbor | — | — | D | — | A | B+ |
Egg Harbor, Gibraltar, Gardner and Baileys Harbor have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Egg Harbor, Gibraltar, Gardner, Peshtigo, Sevastopol and Baileys Harbor report no FBI crime data of their own. Jacksonport isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Egg Harbor and Egg Harbor are one community, graded once. Compare Egg Harbor with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.