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Home to 28 notable people.
Good on most counts; one lags. Its best grade is for incomes: the median household earns $117K. At B+ overall, Neenah ranks 147th of 357 in Wisconsin. It comes out better than nearly three quarters of U.S. towns. Add schools to its strengths: its public schools beat 75% of Wisconsin towns on state tests and graduation. What holds it back is walkability. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 67% of U.S. towns. Cost of living is weaker too: the typical home is worth about $331K, 4.4 years of the Oshkosh metro’s $75K median household income.
Figures: incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · schools, state test and graduation results · home values, Zillow.
Where Neenah beats most towns.
3,237 counted in 2010 and 3,702 in 2020; an estimated 3,673 in 2025.
Growth has leveled off: within 1% of 2020, after 14.4% in the decade before.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Wisconsin), ordered by how far Neenah is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,296 in 1860, 27,319 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1845 and 5 maps from 1911 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Neenah, 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 Neenah.
Neenah owes part of its health edge to its incomes, has household incomes well above the Wisconsin norm and has added a third more jobs in ten years.
Against the 6,127 U.S. towns with household incomes like Neenah’s, it is less healthy than 68%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Neenah: 9.9% of adults worry about having enough food, against 10% in Wisconsin’s towns and 14% across U.S. towns. For adults in the town, the share who binge drink is 22%. In Neenah, 28% of adults feel lonely, and 31% sleep under 7 hours.
| Neenah | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 20% | 16% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 30% | 33% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 32% | 36% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 38% | 35% |
| What stands out | Neenah | WI |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.9% | 12.1% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.9% | 8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
July afternoons reach 82°, January nights drop to 10° and about 49 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Jobs based here grew from 951 in 2013 to 1,307. 28.1% of workers work from home, against 13.1% across Wisconsin.
The average trip to work for Neenah comes to 18 minutes. For most workers, Neenah is a place to come home to: only 1% work in town. Employers in Neenah added 356 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 1,307. Neenah: 5.2% of residents live below the poverty line, where Wisconsin’s towns sit at 6.4% and U.S. towns at 9.6%.
| Neenah | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 18 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $117,000 | $87,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.3% | 8.4% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 5.2% | 6.4% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The biggest park or preserve is Mahler Park, at 25 acres. 2.2 miles of trail wind through 5 parks and preserves. In Neenah, the trail density is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Neenah | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.4% | 3.8% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Mahler Park | — | 25 |
| 2. Herziger Conservancy Park | — | 14 |
| 3. Franzoi Park | — | 9 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Expected losses in Neenah break down as 59% from inland flooding and 17% from cold waves. In Neenah, the FEMA risk score is 50 of 100. One declared disaster, in 2008, has brought federal aid to Neenah households.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Neenah. Close and well known come first.
Big draw30 mi Stadium & arenaLambeau Field
10 mi LakeLake Winnebago
31 mi Stadium & arenaResch Center
30 mi MuseumNational Railroad Museum
39 mi MuseumUSS Cobia
14 mi MuseumEAA Aviation MuseumLambeau Field: JL1Row, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lake Winnebago: self, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Resch Center: User Royalbroil on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.5 · National Railroad Museum: Dual Freq, CC BY 3.0 · USS Cobia: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · EAA Aviation Museum: self, CC BY-SA 2.5
3 within 15 miles of the center of Neenah
About 3 of every 100 Neenah residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Wisconsin.
28 notable people were born in Neenah.
City in Wisconsin, USA, since 1835
Neenah ( NEE-nə) is a city in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States. It is situated on the banks of Lake Winnebago, Little Lake Butte des Morts, and the Fox River approximately 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Oshkosh and 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Green Bay. Neenah's population was 27,319 at the 2020 census. Neenah is within the geographic boundaries of the Town of Neenah, but is politically independent. The city is the southwesternmost of the Fox Cities of northeastern Wisconsin. It is a principal city of the Oshkosh–Neenah metropolitan statistical area, which consists of all of Winnebago County and had 171,730 residents in 2020. It is sometimes referred to as a twin city with Menash…
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4 towns share a border with Neenah.
| Town | WI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neenah | #147 | B+ | C+ | — | A− | B+ |
| Neenah | #141 | A− | B− | B− | A− | B |
| Fox Crossing | #120 | A− | C+ | A− | A− | B |
| Vinland | — | — | B+ | — | A− | B+ |
| Harrison | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Vinland has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Neenah and Vinland report no FBI crime data of their own. Harrison isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Neenah with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Neenah grades B+ overall, better than 74% of U.S. towns and #147 of 357 in Wisconsin. It grades B+ for health and A− for schools.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.
28 notable people were born here, including Reid Ribble and George Bergstrom.
