Random Lake, Wisconsin.
Typical home $345,212 (+3.7% in a year). Sheboygan, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,024 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,238 +4%
- $332,974$345,212 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $83,054 +32%
- $262,158$345,212 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.
- Random Lake$1,812
- 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 Random Lake, WI rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Random Lake, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
Random Lake is a village of 1,561 people in Sheboygan County. Half its households earn more than $89,601 a year and half less, against $73,094 across Sheboygan County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Sheboygan County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Random Lake is a small village in Sheboygan County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where residents are older than in many American towns. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and precipitation falls fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in shops. Within the village, the largest workplaces include the Random Lake School District, CJK and Badger Tag & Label, both offset printing businesses. Commutes are fairly typical for the region, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Ellen, a lake a short drive away, is the closest spot for time on the water. Harrington Beach State Park, also a short drive away, is a protected area for walking and getting outdoors. Farther afield, Kettle Moraine State Forest is a larger protected area, and Road America is a race track, both a longer drive away.
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- 667households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sheboygan County had 61,092 jobs in 2025, 0.1% 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 80° and lows near 60°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Belgium Wwtp weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Random Lake
- Random Lake School DistrictSchool district100FTE
- CJKOffset printing92
- Badger Tag & LabelOffset printing21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 113 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Sheboygan 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 Sheboygan County and the Sheboygan, WI metro.
Random Lake home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Random Lake$345,212
- 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.
- Random Lake7
Zip codes with a Random Lake address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Random 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.