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Fox Cities
Combined Statistical Area
Downtown Appleton skyline, facing east
Map of Appleton–Oshkosh–Neenah, WI CSA   Appleton, WI MSA   Oshkosh–Neenah, WI MSA   City of Appleton   City of Oskhosh   City of Neenah
Country	United States
State	Wisconsin
Largest city	Appleton
Other cities	Neenah Menasha Kaukauna
Time zone	UTC−06:00 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−05:00 (CDT)

The Fox Cities of Northeastern Wisconsin are the cities, towns and villages along the Fox River as it flows from Lake Winnebago northward into Green Bay.

The Fox Cities communities, as defined by its Chamber of Commerce and Convention and Visitors Bureau, include:

• The cities of Appleton (pop. 74,526), Kaukauna (16,246), Menasha (18,268), and Neenah (26,062)
• The villages of Combined Locks (pop. 3,588), Fox Crossing (19,029), Harrison (11,532), Hortonville (2,767), Kimberly (6,803), Little Chute (11,564), and Sherwood (2,985)
• The towns of Buchanan (pop. 6,755), Clayton (3,951), Freedom (5,842), Grand Chute (20,919), Greenville (10,309), Neenah (3,237), Vandenbroek (1,474), and Woodville (980)

Major points of interest include the Fox Cities Exhibition Center, Community First Champion Center, Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, High Cliff State Park, and Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium. The Fox River Mall is the largest shopping mall in the state at 1.2 million square feet.

Area post-secondary schools include Fox Valley Technical College, Lawrence University, and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Fox Cities Campus.

Bus transit for the area is provided by Valley Transit and commercial airline service is provided by Appleton International Airport.

Major highway routes in the area include: Interstate 41/U.S. Route 41, which connects the Fox Cities with Green Bay and Milwaukee; Wisconsin Highway 441, known locally as the Tri-County Expressway, which is an auxiliary highway of Interstate 41 that serves as a beltway around Appleton; and U.S. Route 10 which travels east–west, connecting the Fox Cities with Stevens Point, Waupaca and Manitowoc, along with Interstate 39 and Wausau.

Television and radio stations in the area, usually originating out of Green Bay, identify as serving "Green Bay/Fox Cities" to acknowledge both major population centers in the region (for stations licensed to Green Bay, that community must be mentioned first).

Combined Statistical Area

The Fox Cities constitute a portion of the Appleton-Oshkosh-Neenah, WI Combined Statistical Area (CSA), which also includes the City of Oshkosh and rural portions of Calumet, Outagamie and Winnebago Counties. As of the 2010 Census, the CSA had a population of 392,660 (2017 estimate: 406,540), making it the third largest CSA in Wisconsin, behind Milwaukee and Madison.

At night

References

1. "Communities". www.foxcities.org. Retrieved July 14, 2024.
2. "The Buzz: Fox River Mall turns 30". Retrieved September 6, 2016.
3. "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2017 - United States -- Combined Statistical Area; and for Puerto Rico". United States Census Bureau, Population Division. February 2019. Retrieved February 8, 2019.

External links

• Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce
• Fox Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Fox Cities Regional Partnership

v t e Appleton–Oshkosh–Neenah / Fox Cities metropolitan area, Wisconsin
Core cities	Appleton° Neenah° Oshkosh°
Largest municipalities over 10,000 in 2010	Fox Crossing Grand Chute* Greenville‡ Harrison* Kaukauna° Little Chute Menasha°
Municipalities under 10,000 in 2010	Apple Creek Buchanan* Butte des Morts Center* Clayton* Combined Locks Darboy Dundas Forest Junction Freedom* Harbor Springs Harrison Hortonville Kaukauna* Kimberly Mackville Neenah* Omro° Omro* Oshkosh* Sherwood Vandenbroek* Winchester Winchester* Winnebago Winneconne Winneconne* Woodville* Wrightstown^
Counties	Outagamie Winnebago Calumet BOW counties
*town village °city CDP unincorporated community ^partial

v t e Great Lakes megalopolis as defined by the RPA
Includes all metropolitan areas that have a population of 150,000 or greater according to the most recent national census.
Great Lakes region cities	Brantford Buffalo–Niagara Falls Buffalo Niagara Falls Chicago city Cleveland city Detroit city Duluth–Superior Duluth Superior Erie city Grand Rapids city Guelph Green Bay city Hamilton Holland Kalamazoo city Kenosha Lansing city London Milwaukee city Muskegon Niagara Region St. Catharines Niagara Falls Welland Niles Oshawa Rochester, New York city South Bend city Thunder Bay Toledo city Toronto city Traverse City city Waterloo Region Kitchener Cambridge Waterloo Windsor
Surrounding cities	Akron city Altoona Ann Arbor Barrie Bloomington, Indiana city Bloomington–Normal Bloomington, Illinois Normal Canton city Champaign city Cincinnati city Columbus city Dayton city Eau Claire city Elkhart Evansville city Fargo city Flint Fort Wayne city Fox Cities Appleton Oshkosh Indianapolis city Jackson Janesville–Beloit Kankakee city Kingston La Crosse–Onalaska La Crosse Onalaska Lafayette city Madison city Mahoning Valley Youngstown Minneapolis–Saint Paul Minneapolis Saint Paul Greater Montreal Laval Longueuil Montreal National Capital Region Ottawa Gatineau Pittsburgh city Peoria city Peterborough Rockford city Rochester, Minnesota city Saguenay St. Cloud city Saginaw city Sioux Falls city Springfield city Sudbury urban neighbourhoods Syracuse city Terre Haute city Trois-Rivières Utica–Rome Utica Rome Quad Cities Bettendorf Davenport East Moline Moline Rock Island Greater Quebec city
Cities of states south of region	Elizabethtown city Kansas City city Louisville city St. Louis city Topeka city Wheeling city
Other metro-regions	Quebec City–Windsor Corridor Golden Horseshoe Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area Detroit–Windsor Greater Pittsburgh Metro East
Other megaregions

• Metropolitan areas of Wisconsin
• Appleton–Fox Cities metropolitan area