Big Bend, Wisconsin.
Typical home $401,047 (+6.0% in a year). Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,068 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,550 +6%
- $378,497$401,047 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,605 +25%
- $320,442$401,047 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.
- Big Bend$2,105
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Big Bend, WI rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Big Bend, Waukesha County, Wisconsin
Big Bend is a village of 1,483 people in Waukesha County. Half its households earn more than $134,615 a year and half less, against $106,076 across Waukesha County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Waukesha County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Big Bend is a small village in Waukesha County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and households tend to be older than in many places. Incomes run well above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and retail also common. Across Waukesha County, some of the largest workplaces are Waukesha Memorial Hospital, Milwaukee Tool Corporate and Froedtert Health. A typical commute is a fairly long one, and a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Close by, a short drive away, are Little Muskego Lake, a reservoir, and Whitnall Park, a large park good for walking. Waukesha Biota, a protected area, is also a short drive away. For a day out, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Milwaukee County Zoo are a longer drive away.
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- 542households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Waukesha County had 248,662 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 37 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waukesha Wwtp weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Waukesha County
- Kohl's3,907
- Milwaukee Tool CorporateHandtools, power-driven, manufacturing2,249
- Waukesha Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,600FTE
- Froedtert Health1,530
- Waukesha School DistrictSchool district1,463FTE
- Pieper ElectricLow voltage electrical work1,460
- QuadGraphicsCommercial printer1,268
- TargetDiscount department stores1,167
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 739 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 90,285 people in all across the county; Big Bend has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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 wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Waukesha County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Waukesha County and the Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
Big Bend home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Big Bend$401,047
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Big Bend address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Big Bend — 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.