Metro area · Wisconsin

Green Bay, WI metro area

Green Bay, WI is a metropolitan area of 3 counties in Wisconsin, home to 336,756 residents. Green Bay, WI metro area has a quality-of-life score of 94 out of 100 (very high), ranking #56 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Wisconsin it ranks #8 of 26. It ranks best on traffic deaths (low), preventable hospital stays (low) and loneliness (low). It ranks worst on high ozone days (high), days with unhealthy air (high) and adult obesity (high).

94Very high
Quality-of-life score
#56 of 925 metro and micro areas
Wisconsin
#8 of 26 in WI
Population
336,756 (2025)
Land area
1,870 mi²
Density
180.1 /mi²
CBSA code
24580

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Green Bay, WI metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety91#84/924
  • Economy90#94/925
  • Housing74#238/925
  • Health80#183/925
  • Healthcare89#103/923
  • Environment45#504/917
  • Education79#195/925
  • Infrastructure87#124/925
  • Community89#103/925
  • Leisure & amenities76#221/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Green Bay, WI metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like Green Bay, WI metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Green Bay, WI metro area 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.

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).

Income

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

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

Jobs and pay

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

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Green Bay, WI

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Brown CountyCentral county95275,803
  2. Oconto CountyOutlying county8440,195
  3. Kewaunee CountyOutlying county9520,758

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. Green BayPrincipal city106,253

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Green Bay106,253
  2. De Pere25,301
  3. Howard21,087
  4. Ashwaubenon17,314
  5. Bellevue16,442
  6. Allouez13,975
  7. Suamico12,985
  8. Hobart10,610
  9. Oconto4,625
  10. Pulaski4,006
  11. Wrightstown3,322
  12. Algoma3,228
  13. Oconto Falls3,001
  14. Kewaunee2,806
  15. Luxemburg2,737
  16. Denmark2,558
  17. Gillett1,209
  18. Greenleaf865
  19. Casco561
  20. Lena483
  21. Suring411
  22. Dyckesville391
  23. Sobieski382
  24. Abrams278

Other metro and micro areas in Wisconsin

Areas based in Wisconsin, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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