Brooklyn, Wisconsin.
Typical home $495,807 (+5.5% in a year). Madison, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,475 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,877 +6%
- $469,930$495,807 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $124,875 +34%
- $370,932$495,807 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.
- Brooklyn$2,602
- 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 Brooklyn, WI rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brooklyn, Green County, Wisconsin
Brooklyn is a village of 1,524 people in Green County. Half its households earn more than $108,929 a year and half less, against $82,852 across Green County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Green County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brooklyn is a village in Green County, Wisconsin, and a small one, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well above the county's. Residents are younger than in many small places, and a four-year degree is held by a fair share of adults. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow falling through the season. Summers are warm, with July the warmest month, and rain and melted snow arrive steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, the building trades and government. Across Green County, some of the largest workplaces are Colony Brands, Monroe Clinic and Klondike Cheese Co. The commute is moderate, and a good number of residents work from home. Unemployment across the county is low and has changed little over the past year.
Things to do. The Stoughton Opera House, a theatre, and Madison International Speedway, a race track, are both a short drive away. For a day out, Lake Kegonsa State Park is a protected area on the water, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum is a botanical garden; both are a longer drive away.
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- 468households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Green County had 15,754 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 36 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stoughton weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Green County
- SC Data CenterMail-order houses1,258
- Colony BrandsMail-order houses827
- Monroe ClinicGeneral hospital808FTE
- Aebi-SchmidtTruck bodies assembling on purchased chassis511
- US07 New Glarus Link SnacksCured meats made from purchased carcasses368
- Klondike Cheese CoCheese, natural, manufacturing321
- Monroe School DistrictSchool district319FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters295
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 40 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,243 people in all across the county; Brooklyn has one 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Green County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Green County and the Madison, WI metro.
Brooklyn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brooklyn$495,807
- 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.
- Brooklyn10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brooklyn4
Zip codes with a Brooklyn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brooklyn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.