Vernon, Wisconsin.
Typical home $546,455 (+7.5% in a year). Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,537 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $38,048 +7%
- $508,407$546,455 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $131,853 +32%
- $414,602$546,455 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.
- Vernon$2,868
- 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 Vernon, WI rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vernon, Waukesha County, Wisconsin
Vernon is a village in Waukesha County. Half its households earn more than $120,000 a year and half less, against $106,076 across Waukesha County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Waukesha County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vernon is a village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, where residents tend to be middle-aged or older. Household incomes here are higher than the county's, and few households live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the homes are valued well above the county's typical home.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in banks, insurance and property. Manufacturing and professional and business services also employ people from the village. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and a good number of residents work from home. Winters are colder than in most of the country, with a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm.
Things to do. The Mukwonago River runs in or beside the village, which makes it an easy place for a walk. Waukesha Biota is a protected area a short drive away. The Milwaukee Art Museum, one of the best known museums in the region, is a longer drive away.
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- 2,978households
- 49.4median age
- 43%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Waukesha County had 248,662 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 37 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waukesha Wwtp weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Waukesha County
- Kohl's3,907
- Milwaukee Tool CorporateHandtools, power-driven, manufacturing2,249
- Waukesha Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,600FTE
- Froedtert Health1,530
- Waukesha School DistrictSchool district1,463FTE
- Pieper ElectricLow voltage electrical work1,460
- QuadGraphicsCommercial printer1,268
- TargetDiscount department stores1,167
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 739 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 90,285 people in all across the county; Vernon has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Waukesha 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 Waukesha County and the Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
Vernon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vernon$546,455
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Vernon 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.
- Vernon19.13%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Vernon24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Vernon8
Zip codes with a Vernon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vernon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.