Living in De Pere, WI

Brown County

De Pere is a Fox River/Green Bay-corridor suburb tracing to 1671, when French Jesuit explorer Father Claude-Jean Allouez founded the St. Francis Xavier Mission at the last set of rapids on the Fox River before it reaches Lake Michigan -- a real, documented 17th-century founding among the oldest in this project's Wisconsin buildout. De Pere carries a genuinely rare administrative distinction: it is the ONLY city in Wisconsin with two separate public school districts, De Pere School District on the Fox River's east side and West De Pere School District on the west side, a real holdover from when the two riverbank communities were genuinely separate municipalities before the city unified in 1890. St. Norbert College, a private Catholic liberal-arts college founded in 1898, sits directly in De Pere and anchors both its higher-education identity and a real, named slice of local employment. Housing runs modestly above Wisconsin's own statewide median across most sources this pass -- Redfin's 3-month median sale price ran $406,000, up a real, substantial 19.2% YoY -- though Zillow's own separate typical-home-value figure ($333,637) ran below the state median, a genuine cross-source tension. De Pere's own effective property tax rate (1.32%, Ownwell) runs genuinely BELOW Wisconsin's 1.43% statewide median -- a real, distinct positive setting De Pere apart from every other Wisconsin Tier B market researched in this same batch. De Pere's crime rate runs genuinely, substantially below average (8 per 1,000 residents, an overall grade of A, safer than 85% of US cities per NeighborhoodScout). De Pere's median age (36.3) and 65-plus population share (16.1%) run genuinely below the national average, which is why this record uses best-areas rather than retiring as its ninth topic.

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Who this fits

Best for: Best fits families and young professionals drawn to De Pere's genuine college-town character (St. Norbert College), its below-Wisconsin-average property tax rate, and its substantially below-average crime rate, who confirm which side of the Fox River -- and which of the two school districts -- a target address falls on.

Maybe not for you if: Probably not the right fit for movers assuming a single citywide home-value figure applies uniformly -- De Pere's own cross-source spread (Zillow's typical value below the Wisconsin median vs. Redfin's own median running above it, with 19.2% YoY appreciation) means confirming current, address-specific pricing directly matters more here than in some other Wisconsin Tier B markets.