Jackson, Wisconsin.
Typical home $422,169 (+4.9% in a year). Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,202 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,720 +5%
- $402,449$422,169 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $103,851 +33%
- $318,318$422,169 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.
- Jackson$2,216
- 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 Jackson, WI rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jackson, Washington County, Wisconsin
Jackson is a village of 7,185 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $93,170 a year and half less, against $96,359 across Washington County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jackson is a village in Washington County, Wisconsin, where most homes are lived in by their owners and residents tend to be somewhat older than across the country as a whole. Household incomes sit a little below the county's, and fewer residents live in poverty than many would expect. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and moisture arrives fairly evenly across the year as rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also common. Within the village itself, Wisconsin Pharmacal Company, which makes fly sprays, Custom Service Hardware and Willer Tool are among the largest workplaces. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Close to home, Little Cedar Lake and the Bark River are a short drive away, as are Slinger Speedway, a race track, and Little Switzerland, a ski area. For a longer outing, Kettle Moraine State Forest is a protected area within a longer drive, as is the Milwaukee Art Museum.
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- 3,617households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 58,003 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jackson weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson
- Wisconsin Pharmacal CompanyFly sprays manufacturing66
- Custom Service HardwareTools, hand, merchant wholesalers60
- Willer ToolMachine shops56
- Charter Senior Living of Hasmer LakeSenior housing industry38
- Design 2 ConstructCommercial building construction general contractors32
- Infinity EDMMachine shops31
- Nicolet PlasticsTires, plastics, manufacturing30
- Miller Monument CompanyConcrete pouring28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 413 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 moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Washington County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Washington County and the Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
Jackson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jackson$422,169
- 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 7 Jackson 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.
- Jackson13.66%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jackson39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Jackson12
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Jackson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jackson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.