West Allis, Wisconsin.
Typical home $271,965 (+4.6% in a year), asking rent $1,445 (+6.1%). Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$839 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,057 +5%
- $259,909$271,965 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,760 +38%
- $197,205$271,965 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.
- West Allis$1,427
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in West Allis, WI rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in West Allis, WI rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in West Allis runs $710/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $729 in Nov 2024.
That is $2,155 a month against $1,445 rent: a $1,427 mortgage payment, plus $437 property tax and $291 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — West Allis
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,155
- Renting$1,445
- Mortgage only$1,427
Property tax · $437/mo 1.93% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Milwaukee County, WI
Insurance & upkeep · $291/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in West Allis, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
West Allis is a city of 60,325 people in Milwaukee County. Half its households earn more than $67,611 a year and half less, against $64,435 across Milwaukee County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in West Allis was 3.8% in August 2026, and Milwaukee County had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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. West Allis is a city in Milwaukee County, home to a good many people for its size. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer homes are lived in by their owners than in many American towns, so renting is a common way of living here. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in West Allis are Aurora West Allis Medical Center, the West Allis-West Milwaukee School District and QuadGraphics, a commercial printer. Jobs across Milwaukee County dipped slightly last year, and unemployment in town has stayed close to where it stood a year earlier.
Things to do. Wisconsin State Fair Park, a stadium and fairground, and the Milwaukee County Zoo both lie in or beside town, as does Greenfield Park for time outdoors. A short drive away, the Milwaukee Art Museum offers a museum visit.
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- 28,311households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Milwaukee County had 467,199 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 52 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Allis weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in West Allis
- Encore One1,008
- Aurora West Allis Medical CenterGeneral hospital976FTE
- West Allis-West Milwaukee School DistrictSchool district920FTE
- QuadGraphicsCommercial printer499
- Rogers Behavioral Health West AllisHospitals, psychiatric476
- CHR Hansen Novonesis - West AllisYeast manufacturing414
- Brookdale Senior LivingAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities307
- LezkBuilding cleaning services, janitorial300
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 66 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,351 people in all. 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 wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Milwaukee County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Milwaukee County and the Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro.
West Allis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- West Allis$271,965
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 West Allis listings, and the typical home goes pending in 9 days — 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.
- West Allis16.71%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- West Allis151
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- West Allis66
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- West Allis$279,201
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a West Allis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls West Allis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in West Allis
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53214 | Milwaukee | 34,480 | $1,476 | $257,454 |
| 53227 | Milwaukee | 22,885 | $1,354 | $293,580 |