Waldo, Wisconsin.
Typical home $304,226 (+4.6% in a year). Sheboygan, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$274 (+21%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $13,308 +5%
- $290,918$304,226 since Sep 2025
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.
- Waldo$1,597
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Waldo, WI rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Waldo, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
Waldo is a village of 467 people in Sheboygan County. Half its households earn more than $93,750 a year and half less, against $73,094 across Sheboygan County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Waldo is a very small village in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, where households earn more than the county's typical household and few people live below the poverty line. Homes here are valued well above what many older homeowners might expect for a village this size. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, shops, schools, hospitals and social care, and the building trades. Across Sheboygan County, the largest workplaces include Kohler Wisconsin, the Sheboygan Area School District and Sargento Foods. Unemployment in the county is low and close to where it stood a year ago, and the commute is short for most people, with some working from home.
Things to do. Road America, a race track, is a short drive away, and so are Lake Ellen and the Mullet River for time near the water. Kettle Moraine State Forest, a protected area, is a longer drive away and suits a day outdoors. Wade House Historic Site, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 178households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 10%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 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 49 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hingham Wwtp weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sheboygan County
- Kohler WisconsinHotels, resort, without casinos2,107
- Sheboygan Area School DistrictSchool district1,343FTE
- Bemis ManufacturingBathroom and toilet accessories, plastics, manufacturing1,080
- Sargento FoodsCheese manufacturing998
- Discovery EnergyPower generators manufacturing887
- Masters Gallery Foods, Inc - PlymouthCheese merchant wholesalers870
- JohnsonvilleMeat processes from carcasses780
- Rockline Industries780
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 160 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 24,504 people in all across the county; Waldo has none of its own. 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.
Waldo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Waldo$304,226
- 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.
Zip codes with a Waldo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Waldo — 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.