Okauchee, Wisconsin.
Typical home $621,113 (+3.7% in a year). Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,776 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,328 +4%
- $598,785$621,113 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $114,702 +23%
- $506,411$621,113 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.
- Okauchee$3,260
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Okauchee, WI rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Okauchee, Waukesha County, Wisconsin
The Census does not count Okauchee on its own, so the figures here are Waukesha County's. Half the county's households earn more than $106,076 a year and half less; 5% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Waukesha County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Waukesha County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Okauchee is a village in Waukesha County, in southeastern Wisconsin. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are high. The population skews older than the national middle age, which suits a community of long-settled households. Figures for the area are the county's, since the Census does not count the village on its own.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in professional and business services, or in shops. Unemployment in the county has edged up from a year earlier, while the number of jobs has grown slightly. A fair number of people work from home, and a large share of adults hold a college degree.
Things to do. Upper Nashotah Lake lies in or beside the village, so it is the easiest outing to reach. Nixon Park is a short drive away, and the Milwaukee Art Museum, one of the best known museums in the state, is a longer drive. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, so the lake and park are most pleasant in the warmer months.
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- 168,658households
- 43.5median age
- 49%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What people in Waukesha County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Waukesha County had 248,662 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 40 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oconomowoc Wwtp weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Waukesha County
- Kohl's3,907
- Milwaukee Tool CorporateHandtools, power-driven, manufacturing2,249
- Waukesha Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,600FTE
- Froedtert Health1,530
- Waukesha School DistrictSchool district1,463FTE
- Pieper ElectricLow voltage electrical work1,460
- QuadGraphicsCommercial printer1,268
- TargetDiscount department stores1,167
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 739 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 90,285 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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 wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Waukesha 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 Waukesha County and the Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
Okauchee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Okauchee$621,113
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Okauchee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Okauchee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.