Bayside, Wisconsin.
Typical home $562,786 (+7.6% in a year). Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,599 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $39,533 +8%
- $523,253$562,786 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $128,215 +30%
- $434,571$562,786 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Bayside$2,954
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Bayside, WI rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bayside, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
Bayside is a village of 4,482 people in Milwaukee County. Half its households earn more than $160,096 a year and half less, against $64,435 across Milwaukee County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Milwaukee County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Bayside is a village on Milwaukee County's north shore, home to a small community where nearly everyone owns the house they live in. Residents are older than in most places, incomes run far above the county's, and far fewer people live below the poverty line than across the county. Homes are valued well above what is typical, and most adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs near freezing, while July brings warm days, and the year's rain and melted snow is fairly generous.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in professional and business services, with others in banking, insurance and property or in manufacturing. A good share work from home, and the typical commute is a short one. Across Milwaukee County, the largest workplaces include the Milwaukee School District, the Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Hospital.
Things to do. Lynden Sculpture Garden, an outdoor museum of sculpture, sits in or beside town. A short drive away are the Milwaukee Art Museum and Lake Park, a garden beside the lake. For a longer outing, the Milwaukee County Zoo is a longer drive away.
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- 1,725households
- 71%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 34%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Milwaukee County had 467,199 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 62°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grafton Wwtp weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Milwaukee County
- Milwaukee School DistrictSchool district9,500FTE
- Medical College of WisconsinUniversity or college6,947
- Froedtert Mem. Lutheran HosptGeneral hospital6,307FTE
- Aurora Health Care MetroGeneral hospital5,407FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs3,737
- Rockwell AutomationRelays, electrical and electronic, manufacturing3,623
- University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeUniversity or college3,509
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,194
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 831 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 128,744 people in all across the county; Bayside has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Milwaukee County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Milwaukee County and the Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
Bayside home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bayside$562,786
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bayside listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Bayside26.05%
- United States25.56%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bayside18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bayside6
Zip codes with a Bayside address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bayside — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.