Bristol, Wisconsin.
Typical home $465,478 (+5.6% in a year), asking rent $1,850 . Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,358 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,528 +6%
- $440,950$465,478 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $101,276 +28%
- $364,201$465,478 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.
- Bristol$2,443
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Bristol, WI rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bristol, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
Bristol is a village of 5,192 people in Kenosha County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% 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 manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bristol is a village in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, and most of the people who live here are a bit older than in the typical American town. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, which is far more than across the county as a whole, and homes here are valued well above what is typical nationally. Very few residents live below the poverty line, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and lows well below freezing, while July brings warm summer days, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Bristol are Kutzler YMX MC, a local freight trucking company, the Bristol #1 School District, and Cordeck, which makes roof deck and sheet metal products. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a modest share of people work from home. Unemployment across Kenosha County is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For a short outing, the Russell Military Museum is a short drive away. Farther afield, Six Flags Great America is an amusement park, and Geneva Lake and the Chicago Botanic Garden are a lake and a botanical garden, each a longer drive away.
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- 2,109households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 11%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, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bristol
- Kutzler YMX MCTrucking, general freight, local400
- Bristol #1 School DistrictSchool district94FTE
- CordeckRoof deck, sheet metal, manufacturing49
- ODW Logistics - BristolGeneral warehousing and storage46
- Quality CarriersBulk liquids trucking, long-distance37
- Landscape Concepts Management- BristolLandscape care and maintenance services25
- Development EnterprisesExtruded, molded or lathe-cut rubber goods manufacturing24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 581 people in all. School districts come 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
- 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.
Bristol home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bristol$465,478
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Bristol15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bristol6
Zip codes with a Bristol address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bristol — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.