Powers Lake, Wisconsin.
Typical home $432,835 (+4.0% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,260 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,702 +4%
- $416,133$432,835 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $102,719 +31%
- $330,116$432,835 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.
- Powers Lake$2,272
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Powers Lake, WI rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Powers Lake, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
Powers Lake, in Kenosha County, had 1,401 people in the 2020 census. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% 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 people in Kenosha County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Powers Lake is a small lakeside community in the southwest corner of Kenosha County, Wisconsin, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Poverty is rare here, and typical home values are high, which fits a place where most households have put down roots. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while July brings warm summer days, and the year sees a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also employing many. Across Kenosha County, Amazon, the Kenosha School District and Froedtert South are among the largest workplaces. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Chain O' Lakes State Park and Big Foot Beach State Park, both protected areas, are a short drive away, as is Wilmot Mountain, a ski area that suits the snowy winters. For a longer drive, Geneva Lake is a well-known lake with plenty of shoreline to explore.
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- 3%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
What people in Kenosha County 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 29° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 59°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pell Lake weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kenosha County
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,014
- Kenosha School DistrictSchool district2,370FTE
- Froedtert SouthGeneral hospital1,584FTE
- 76th StreetHealthcare1,535
- County of KenoshaExecutive and legislative office combinations1,298
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services1,039
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,022
- Aurora Medical Center KenoshaGeneral hospital945FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 172 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 29,642 people in all across the county; Powers Lake has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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.
Powers Lake home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Powers Lake$432,835
- 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.
- Powers Lake12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Powers Lake5
Zip codes with a Powers Lake address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Powers Lake — 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.