Dover, Wisconsin.
Typical home $496,508 (+4.7% in a year). Racine, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,369 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,422 +5%
- $474,086$496,508 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,633 +19%
- $417,875$496,508 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.
- Dover$2,606
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Dover, WI rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dover, Racine County, Wisconsin
Dover is a town of 4,282 people in Racine County. Half its households earn more than $100,156 a year and half less, against $78,096 across Racine County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Racine County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer 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 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dover is a small town in Racine County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Residents are older than in most places, incomes run well above the county's, and very few people live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow arrive in fair amounts through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, the building trades and manufacturing. Across Racine County, some of the largest workplaces are Racine Unified School District, SC Johnson and InSinkErator. A good share of people work from home, and a typical commute is a fairly long one by the standards of a small town.
Things to do. Close to home, Richard Bong State Recreation Area is a protected area for time outdoors, and the White River is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Milwaukee County Zoo, and Geneva Lake, a lake for boating and lakeside days.
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- 1,227households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Racine County had 75,873 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 61°. About 40 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Union Grove weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Racine County
- Racine Unified School DistrictSchool district2,700FTE
- Foxconn Industrial InternetPrinted circuit assemblies manufacturing1,516
- Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - ALLGeneral hospital1,093FTE
- CNH Industrial AmericaAdministrative services900
- SC JohnsonDisinfectants, household-type and industrial, manufacturing816
- InSinkEratorGarbage disposal units, household-type, manufacturing742
- SC JohnsonCorporate offices722
- NestleChocolate bars made from cocoa beans513
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 218 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 27,874 people in all across the county; Dover has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively 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 Racine 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 Racine County and the Racine, WI metro.
Dover home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dover$496,508
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Dover address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dover — 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.