Salem, Wisconsin.
Typical home $372,476 (+5.2% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,117 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,326 +5%
- $354,150$372,476 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $93,310 +33%
- $279,166$372,476 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.
- Salem$1,955
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Salem, WI rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Salem, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
The Census does not count Salem on its own, so the figures here are Kenosha County's. Half the county's households earn more than $81,239 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 67% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 33% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Salem is a town in Kenosha County, in the southeast corner of Wisconsin. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many households have settled here over the years. Winters are cold, with the coldest months in January, while summers are warm, peaking in July. Rain and melted snow fall through the year, so the seasons tend to be wet as well as cold and warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others work in manufacturing, retail shops, or professional and business services. Job numbers in the county have grown over the past year, and unemployment has stayed low. Most adults here have some college or a four-year degree, which gives many people a range of paths into local work.
Things to do. Geneva Lake is one of the best known lakes in the area, a longer drive away. Six Flags Great America is an amusement park, also a longer drive away, and Richard Bong State Recreation Area is a protected area a short drive away.
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- 68,904households
- 39.4median age
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
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 61°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paddock 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. 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.
Salem home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Salem$372,476
- 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 4 Salem listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Salem27.29%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Salem53
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Salem19
Zip codes with a Salem address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Salem — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Salem
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53168 | Salem | 9,036 | — | $364,458 |
| 53179 | Trevor | 6,469 | — | $360,968 |
| 53170 | Silver Lake | 2,134 | — | $343,740 |