Richfield, Wisconsin.
Typical home $556,311 (+6.2% in a year). Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,571 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $32,381 +6%
- $523,930$556,311 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $129,827 +30%
- $426,484$556,311 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.
- Richfield$2,920
- 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 Richfield, WI rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Richfield, Washington County, Wisconsin
Richfield is a village of 11,739 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $143,963 a year and half less, against $96,359 across Washington County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Richfield is a village in Washington County whose residents are older than in most American places, and nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run well above the county's, and relatively few people live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in professional and business services, with banks, insurance and property close behind. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are the West Bend School District, G&H Pets and QuadGraphics. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Bark River runs in or beside town, and Little Cedar Lake and the Ashippun River are a short drive away. Slinger Speedway, a race track, is also a short drive off. For a day out in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Art Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 4,500households
- 52%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 24%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 58,003 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer 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 83° and lows near 60°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Richfield Ssw weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- West Bend School DistrictSchool district734FTE
- G&H PetsPet food, dog and cat, manufacturing721
- QuadGraphicsCommercial printer520
- Signicast HartfordFoundries, steel investment500
- St. Josephs Comm. HosptGeneral hospital490FTE
- Germantown School DistrictSchool district468FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters449
- Sysco Eastern WisconsinGeneral-line groceries merchant wholesalers438
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 199 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,593 people in all across the county; Richfield has two 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Washington 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 Washington County and the Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
Richfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Richfield$556,311
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Richfield listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Richfield17.71%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Richfield27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Richfield10
Zip codes with a Richfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Richfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Richfield
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53033 | Hubertus | 6,286 | — | $505,339 |
| 53017 | Colgate | 5,458 | — | $568,973 |
| 53076 | Richfield | 3,109 | — | $584,977 |