Cudahy, Wisconsin.
Typical home $287,301 (+5.7% in a year), asking rent $1,464 . Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$899 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,599 +6%
- $271,702$287,301 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,995 +37%
- $210,307$287,301 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.
- Cudahy$1,508
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Cudahy, WI rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cudahy, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
Cudahy is a city of 18,204 people in Milwaukee County. Half its households earn more than $66,719 a year and half less, against $64,435 across Milwaukee County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cudahy is a city on the south side of Milwaukee County, with an older population than many places and incomes a little above the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a sizeable minority of residents live below the poverty line. Winters here are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, other services, and professional and business services. In Cudahy itself, some of the largest workplaces are ATI, which makes steel forgings, FedEx, and the Cudahy School District. Commutes are fairly typical, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. Grant Park, in or beside town, is the closest spot for a walk or a green afternoon outdoors. A short drive away are the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, a botanical garden. For a longer outing, the Milwaukee County Zoo is a longer drive away.
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- 8,475households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 12%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 31° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 65°. About 49 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Milwaukee Mitchell Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cudahy
- ATIFerrous forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished888
- FedExCourier and express delivery services319
- Cudahy School DistrictSchool district318FTE
- CopelandRefrigeration equipment, industrial and commercial-type, manufacturing295
- Pioneer Commercial CleaningJanitorial services225
- Steel Partners HoldingsPrecious metal bar, rod, sheet, strip, and tubing made from purchased metals or scrap224
- CudahyAll printing operations including digital printing169
- RegalRexnordPulleys, power transmission, manufacturing150
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,227 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.
Cudahy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cudahy$287,301
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Cudahy listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Cudahy15.91%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cudahy48
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cudahy23
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Cudahy$271,454
- United States$371,553
Zip codes with a Cudahy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cudahy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.