Village · Shawano County, Wisconsin

Wittenberg, Wisconsin

Wittenberg is a village in Shawano County, Wisconsin, part of the Shawano, WI metro area. It has 1,027 residents. Wittenberg, Wisconsin has a quality-of-life score of 59 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #6,412 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Wisconsin it ranks #359 of 396 cities and towns. It ranks best on restaurants and bars (high), property crime rate (low) and time spent in the emergency room (low). It ranks worst on average weekly wage (low), math scores (low) and reading scores (low).

59Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #6,412 of 15,651 cities and towns
Wisconsin: #359 of 396 in WI
Population: 1,027 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 567.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 5588325

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety81#2,958/15,637
Economy26#11,535/15,631
Housing90#1,437/14,977
Health41#9,203/15,609
Healthcare61#6,129/15,650
Environment91#1,376/15,453
Education9#14,286/15,649
Infrastructure23#11,993/15,650
Community81#2,978/15,651
Leisure & amenities48#8,063/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Wittenberg, Wisconsin ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Shawano County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Restaurants and bars · high15.4 /10k
95/100Wisconsin 12.7 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsShawano County value
Property crime rate · low380 /100k
94/100Wisconsin 1,017 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureShawano County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low108 min
93/100Wisconsin 140 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesShawano County value
Mental health care shortage · low0.0
91/100Wisconsin 4.6United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationShawano County value
Primary care shortage · low0.0
90/100Wisconsin 4.2United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationShawano County value
Rent-burdened households · low43.0%
90/100Wisconsin 43.7%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070

Weaknesses

Average weekly wage · low$906
6/100Wisconsin $1,272United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsShawano County value
Math scores · low2.59
8/100Wisconsin 3.03United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteShawano County value
Reading scores · low2.70
8/100Wisconsin 3.00United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteShawano County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low47.9%
9/100Wisconsin 83.6%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteShawano County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high95 mi
11/100Wisconsin 40 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauShawano County value
Pharmacies · low1.0 /10k
12/100Wisconsin 1.7 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsShawano County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Child poverty rateImproving
35.3% (2015-2019) → 2.0% (2020-2024)
−33 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
20.9% (2015-2019) → 43.0% (2020-2024)
+22 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
17.0% (2015-2019) → 28.4% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Poverty rateImproving
17.4% (2015-2019) → 8.2% (2020-2024)
−9.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.9× (2015-2019) → 2.6× (2020-2024)
+41%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
74.9% (2015-2019) → 80.6% (2020-2024)
+5.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Wittenberg, Wisconsin improved on 0 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 11 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined2

Rent / income+11 points17.0% → 28.4%
Rent burden+22 points20.9% → 43.0%

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Wittenberg, Wisconsin between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.8 min2015-2019	23.5 min2020-2024	−0.3 min	Within the margin of error	51%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.0%2015-2019	16.0%2020-2024	−0.9 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Broadband subscriptions	74.9%2015-2019	80.6%2020-2024	+5.6 points	Within the margin of error	36%
Effective property tax rate	1.60%2015-2019	1.23%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	82%
High school diploma or higher	81.2%2015-2019	84.7%2020-2024	+3.5 points	Within the margin of error	73%
Home price to income ratio	1.9×2015-2019	2.6×2020-2024	+0.8×	Within the margin of error	33%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3622015-2019	0.4242020-2024	+0.063	Within the margin of error	12%
Median household income	$51,0272015-2019	$52,8212020-2024	+3.5%	Within the margin of error	10%
Poverty rate	17.4%2015-2019	8.2%2020-2024	−9.2 points	Within the margin of error	92%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	17.0%2015-2019	28.4%2020-2024	+11 points	Declined	8%
Rent-burdened households	20.9%2015-2019	43.0%2020-2024	+22 points	Declined	7%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	13.1%2015-2019	11.0%2020-2024	−2.1 points	Within the margin of error	70%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Wittenberg, Wisconsin five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Wittenberg, Wisconsin in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Wittenberg, Wisconsin itself moved −16.2 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,027 residents (±160)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

417 households (±60)

Wittenberg, Wisconsin
Wisconsin share

Under $25k23%†94
$25k–50k26%†107
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

417 households (±60)

Wittenberg, Wisconsin
Wisconsin share

Own53%220
Rent47%197

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

399 workers (±73)

Wittenberg, Wisconsin
Wisconsin share

Drive alone74%294
Carpool7.0%†28
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Shawano, WI

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Shawano County, the county holding most of Wittenberg's residents.

Shawano County has 892 employer establishments, 217 for every 10,000 residents (0.87× the US rate of 248; 0.89× Wisconsin's), with 10,135 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,746. The Census Bureau also counts 2,740 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 892; 2,740 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 217; US 248 · Wisconsin 244
Paid employees: 10,135
Average annual pay: $45,746; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Shawano County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	85	20.7	1.33×More than typical	346	$60,610	304
Restaurants and other eating places	74	18	0.98×About typical	880	$17,727	12
Ambulatory health care services	56	13.6	0.65×Fewer than typical	349	$59,564	66
Full-service restaurants	45	10.9	1.42×More than typical	452	$18,142	—
Religious organizations	44	10.7	1.93×More than typical	193	$15,425	—
Truck transportation	34	8.3	1.63×More than typical	123	$56,520	119
Construction of buildings	27	6.6	0.87×About typical	79	$54,114	157
Services to buildings and dwellings	27	6.6	0.97×About typical	63	$48,444	130
Building equipment contractors	24	5.8	0.97×About typical	119	$56,765	42
Building finishing contractors	24	5.8	1.53×More than typical	126	$71,325	103
Drinking places (alcoholic beverages)	20	4.9	4.01×More than typical	43	$22,977	29
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	20	4.9	1.54×More than typical	52	$43,000	66

Rank places for an industry Open Shawano County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 41,140 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Wittenberg, Wisconsin: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

5.3KFY2023
44.7KFY2024
0FY2025

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Wittenberg, Wisconsin, so they do not add up across cities.

Wittenberg, Wisconsin's figures are part of those of Shawano County, WI ($392K in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Wittenberg is mostly in Shawano County.

See federal money in Shawano County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Wittenberg, Wisconsin is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Tony WiedR-WI-8 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 1.2%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Shawano County77100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Shawano, WI62

Other cities and towns in Shawano County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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