Johnson Creek, Wisconsin.
Typical home $419,695 (+5.6% in a year). Watertown-Fort Atkinson, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,253 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,286 +6%
- $397,409$419,695 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $107,201 +34%
- $312,494$419,695 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.
- Johnson Creek$2,203
- 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 Johnson Creek, WI rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Johnson Creek, Jefferson County, Wisconsin
Johnson Creek is a village of 3,318 people in Jefferson County. Half its households earn more than $100,685 a year and half less, against $83,750 across Jefferson County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 2.8% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Johnson Creek is a village in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, and it skews younger than many places its size. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run above the county's, with few residents living below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with rain and melted snow spread across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. The village's largest workplaces include Doosan Bobcat Johnson Creek, MasterMold LLC Johnson Creek and Menards. Commutes are on the longer side, and some people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Aztalan State Park is an archaeological site, and Rock Lake offers a lake for time on the water. The Crawfish River is also close by, and Johnson Creek itself runs in or beside town. For a longer outing, Lake Monona is a bigger lake a longer drive away.
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- 1,185households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 33,413 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer 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 62°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jefferson Wwtp weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Johnson Creek
- Doosan Bobcat Johnson CreekGarden machinery and equipment, powered, manufacturing292
- MasterMold LLC Johnson CreekAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing262
- Menards"home centers"164
- milkrite | InterPulsExtruded, molded or lathe-cut rubber goods manufacturing108
- Rainbow Hospice Inpatient CenterHospices, inpatient care105
- SaelensDrives, high-speed industrial, manufacturing97
- Kohl's55
- Fort HealthCarePhysicians' offices20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,103 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Jefferson 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 Jefferson County and the Watertown-Fort Atkinson, WI metro.
Johnson Creek home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Johnson Creek$419,695
- 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.
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.
- Johnson Creek11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Johnson Creek6
Zip codes with a Johnson Creek address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Johnson Creek — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.