Paris, Wisconsin.
Typical home $541,727 (+5.8% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,592 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $29,601 +6%
- $512,126$541,727 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $121,584 +29%
- $420,143$541,727 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.
- Paris$2,843
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Paris, WI rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Paris, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
Paris is a town of 1,397 people in Kenosha County. Half its households earn more than $106,719 a year and half less, against $81,239 across Kenosha County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Kenosha County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Paris is a small town in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, where residents are older than in most places and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes are well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, July being the warmest; rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in the building trades, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in shops. Some of the largest workplaces in town are Birchwood Transport, a long-distance trucking company, the Paris J1 School District, and Point Ready MIX, which makes and delivers concrete. The typical commute is a moderate drive, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Richard Bong State Recreation Area, a protected area of open land, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Milwaukee Art Museum, Geneva Lake, and the amusement park Six Flags Great America.
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- 525households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kenosha County had 75,996 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kenosha Regional Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Paris
- Birchwood TransportTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload44
- Paris J1 School DistrictSchool district34FTE
- Point Ready MIXReady-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 68 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 wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Kenosha 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 Kenosha County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Paris home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Paris$541,727
- 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.
- Paris5
Zip codes with a Paris address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Paris — 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.