Brown Deer, Wisconsin.
Typical home $290,285 (+3.8% in a year), asking rent $1,688 (+4.4%). Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$838 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,664 +4%
- $279,620$290,285 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,788 +26%
- $229,497$290,285 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.
- Brown Deer$1,524
- 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 Brown Deer, WI rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Brown Deer, WI rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Brown Deer runs $613/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $2,300 a month against $1,688 rent: a $1,524 mortgage payment, plus $466 property tax and $311 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Brown Deer
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,300
- Renting$1,688
- Mortgage only$1,524
Property tax · $466/mo 1.93% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Milwaukee County, WI
Insurance & upkeep · $311/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Brown Deer, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
Brown Deer is a village of 12,507 people in Milwaukee County. Half its households earn more than $93,974 a year and half less, against $64,435 across Milwaukee County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% 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 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. Brown Deer is a village on the north side of Milwaukee County, and its residents tend to be older than the national average. Household incomes run well above the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and professional and business services also common. Among the largest workplaces in the village are Rogers Behavioral Health, the Brown Deer School District and Fidelity National Information Services. A good number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. Lynden Sculpture Garden, a museum and outdoor garden, is in or beside the village. A short drive away are Lake Park, a garden, and the Nature & Culture Museum of Wisconsin. For a longer outing, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Milwaukee County Zoo are a longer drive away.
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- 5,818households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 22%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 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 40 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Mary College weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brown Deer
- Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. - Brown DeerFinancial transactions processing1,907
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters378
- Rogers Behavioral HealthPsychiatric hospitals349
- Traffic & Parking Control CompanyTraffic signals manufacturing260
- Brown Deer School DistrictSchool district210FTE
- Otis Elevator Company-MilwaukeeElevator/escalator-installation, modernization, maintenance, service, and repair159
- Signicast Brown DeerAluminum die-casting foundries105
- Roundy'sSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores86
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,544 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 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.
Brown Deer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brown Deer$290,285
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Brown Deer listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Brown Deer24.32%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brown Deer53
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brown Deer20
Zip codes with a Brown Deer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brown Deer — 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.