Dousman, Wisconsin.
Typical home $495,096 (+7.1% in a year). Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,362 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $32,864 +7%
- $462,231$495,096 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $100,050 +25%
- $395,045$495,096 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.
- Dousman$2,599
- 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 Dousman, WI rose 7.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dousman, Waukesha County, Wisconsin
Dousman is a village of 2,419 people in Waukesha County. Half its households earn more than $96,513 a year and half less, against $106,076 across Waukesha County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Waukesha County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dousman is a small village in Waukesha County. Most households own the place they live in, though renters make up a real part of the village. Incomes run a little below the county's, and the typical home is worth a good deal, as it is across much of southeastern Wisconsin. Winters are cold and snowy, with January highs well below freezing, while July is warm; rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Dousman are the Wisconsin Masonic Home and the Masonic Center for Health and Rehab, which provide assisted living and convalescent care, along with Dousman Transport Co. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home. Unemployment across Waukesha County has stayed low, and jobs there have edged up slightly.
Things to do. For a day on the water, Lower Nashotah Lake and Upper Nashotah Lake are both a short drive away, as is Wisconsin Brewing Company Park, a stadium. Farther afield, the Milwaukee Art Museum is a longer drive, as is the Milwaukee County Zoo.
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- 953households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Waukesha County had 248,662 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 51 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sullivan 3SE weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dousman
- Wisconsin Masonic Home Inc. CP/RSL/MWAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities204
- Masonic Center for Health and RehabConvalescent homes or convalescent hospitals131
- Dousman Transport Co30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 365 people in all. 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Waukesha 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 Waukesha County and the Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
Dousman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dousman$495,096
- 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.
- Dousman7
Zip codes with a Dousman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dousman — 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.