Wayne, Wisconsin.
Typical home $501,838 (+10.7% in a year). Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,477 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $48,355 +11%
- $453,484$501,838 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $102,662 +26%
- $399,176$501,838 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.
- Wayne$2,634
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Wayne, WI rose 10.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wayne, Washington County, Wisconsin
Wayne is a town of 2,182 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $130,000 a year and half less, against $96,359 across Washington County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wayne is a small town in Washington County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Households here have incomes well above the county's, and relatively few people live below the poverty line. The population is older than in many places, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect given the incomes. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing temperatures common, while July is the warmest month and pleasantly warm, and rain and melted snow together add up to a moderate amount through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are the West Bend School District, G&H Pets, a pet food maker, and QuadGraphics, a commercial printer. The county's unemployment rate is a little higher than a year ago, and its job count slipped slightly last year. Commutes are fairly long, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Kettle Moraine State Forest, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Little Cedar Lake, which makes for a quiet day by the water. Allenton State Wildlife Area, another protected area, is also close by. With a longer drive, Road America, a well-known race track, is within reach.
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- 804households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 12%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 27° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Bend Public Works weather station, 9 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; Wayne 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.
Wayne home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wayne$501,838
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
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.
- Wayne7
Zip codes with a Wayne address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wayne — 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.