Brighton, Wisconsin.
Typical home $619,712 (+10.8% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,923 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $60,473 +11%
- $559,239$619,712 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $154,424 +33%
- $465,288$619,712 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.
- Brighton$3,253
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Brighton, WI rose 10.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brighton, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
Brighton is a town of 1,422 people in Kenosha County. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Kenosha County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brighton is a small rural town in Kenosha County, and nearly all of its homes are lived in by their owners, far more than across the county as a whole. Typical home values are high, and few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, wholesale and the building trades also common. Across Kenosha County, some of the largest workplaces are Amazon, the Kenosha School District and Froedtert South. A four-year degree is held by a fair share of adults, and the typical commute is a moderate one, with some people working from home.
Things to do. Richard Bong State Recreation Area, a protected area, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are Wilmot Mountain, a ski area, and the White River. For a longer outing, Geneva Lake is a lake a longer drive away.
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- 596households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kenosha County had 75,996 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paddock Lake weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kenosha County
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,014
- Kenosha School DistrictSchool district2,370FTE
- Froedtert SouthGeneral hospital1,584FTE
- 76th StreetHealthcare1,535
- County of KenoshaExecutive and legislative office combinations1,298
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services1,039
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,022
- Aurora Medical Center KenoshaGeneral hospital945FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 172 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 29,642 people in all across the county; Brighton has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Kenosha 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 Kenosha County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Brighton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brighton$619,712
- 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 Brighton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brighton — 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.