Greenfield, Wisconsin.
Typical home $327,103 (+6.5% in a year), asking rent $1,426 . Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$966 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,879 +6%
- $307,224$327,103 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,099 +33%
- $246,004$327,103 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.
- Greenfield$1,717
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Greenfield, WI rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Greenfield, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
Greenfield is a city of 37,803 people in Milwaukee County. Half its households earn more than $70,459 a year and half less, against $64,435 across Milwaukee County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in Greenfield was 3.3% in August 2026, and Milwaukee 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Greenfield is a city in Milwaukee County, home to a good many older residents, with a median age that sits on the higher side. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a city this size. Slightly more homes are lived in by their owners than rented, and the winters are cold and snowy while the summers turn warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and retail also employing a good share. The biggest workplaces in Greenfield include the Greenfield School District, Walmart and the Whitnall School District. The trip to work is a moderate one, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Whitnall Park and Boerner Botanical Gardens are in or beside town, a park and a botanical garden for walking and looking at plants. A short drive away are the Milwaukee County Zoo and the Milwaukee Art Museum, a museum that is among the best known in the area. The Root River, a short drive away, is another place to spend time outdoors.
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- 17,393households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 14%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 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hales Corners/whitnall Park/bo weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greenfield
- Greenfield School DistrictSchool district494FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters324
- Whitnall School DistrictSchool district322FTE
- MeijerRetail231
- Milwaukee Rehabilitation Hospital at GreenfieldPhysical rehabilitation hospitals164
- Roundy'sSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores156
- Everbrite - GreenfieldCorporate offices150
- Kunes of GreenfieldAutomobile dealers, new only or new and used140
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,235 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.
Greenfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Greenfield$327,103
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Greenfield 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.
- Greenfield21.57%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Greenfield80
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Greenfield30
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Greenfield$318,147
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Greenfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Greenfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Greenfield
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53220 | Milwaukee | 27,782 | $1,690 | $297,415 |
| 53228 | Milwaukee | 15,121 | — | $356,504 |