Glendale, Wisconsin.
Typical home $349,779 (+5.3% in a year), asking rent $1,649 (+5.5%). Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$986 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,680 +5%
- $332,099$349,779 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,226 +26%
- $276,553$349,779 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.
- Glendale$1,836
- 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 Glendale, WI rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Glendale, WI rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Glendale runs $1,123/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $2,772 a month against $1,649 rent: a $1,836 mortgage payment, plus $561 property tax and $374 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Glendale
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$2,772
- Renting$1,649
- Mortgage only$1,836
Property tax · $561/mo 1.93% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Milwaukee County, WI
Insurance & upkeep · $374/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 Glendale, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
Glendale is a city of 13,357 people in Milwaukee County. Half its households earn more than $78,092 a year and half less, against $64,435 across Milwaukee County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% 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 professional services.
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. Glendale is a city in Milwaukee County where residents are older than in much of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run well above the county's, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and precipitation is fairly generous through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, manufacturing, and banks, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces in Glendale are Clarios, Johnson Controls and Target. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home. Across Milwaukee County, the number of jobs slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Milwaukee Art Museum is one of the best known museums in the area, and the Milwaukee County Zoo is close by as well. Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, a botanical garden, is also a short drive away, which makes it an easy outing in the long cold months. For time outdoors, Lake Park is a garden a short drive away, and the Root River is a longer drive.
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- 6,087households
- 59%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 26%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, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Glendale
- Clarios HQ GlendaleFacilities support services601
- Brady Worldwide Incorporated - Florist Avenue FacilityCoating purchased papers for nonpackaging applications298
- Johnson ControlsPlumbing heating ac240
- TargetDiscount department stores222
- The Fresh GroupFresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers179
- Glendale-River Hills School DistrictSchool district175FTE
- Nicolet Union High School School DistrictSchool district167FTE
- Milwaukee ElectronicsSurface mount machinery for making printed circuit boards manufacturing130
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,858 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.
Glendale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glendale$349,779
- 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 4 Glendale 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.
- Glendale22.92%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Glendale60
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Glendale23
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Glendale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glendale — 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.