Wind Lake, Wisconsin.
Typical home $490,842 (+5.8% in a year). Racine, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,471 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,775 +6%
- $464,067$490,842 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $133,772 +37%
- $357,070$490,842 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.
- Wind Lake$2,576
- 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 Wind Lake, WI rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wind Lake, Racine County, Wisconsin
Wind Lake, in Racine County, had 5,355 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $102,855 a year and half less, against $78,096 across Racine County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Racine County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wind Lake is a small community in Racine County, with incomes well above the county's and fewer households living below the poverty line than you might expect. Homes here are priced on the higher side. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and well below freezing through the day, while July is pleasantly warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, the building trades, and professional and business services. Across Racine County, some of the largest workplaces are the Racine Unified School District, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare and SC Johnson. A fair number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. Close by, Little Muskego Lake is a reservoir a short drive away, and Whitnall Park is a park a short drive away. Boerner Botanical Gardens, also a short drive off, is a botanical garden. For a day out, the Milwaukee Art Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 2,154households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Racine County had 75,873 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 12°; 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 Rochester Wwtp weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Racine County
- Racine Unified School DistrictSchool district2,700FTE
- Foxconn Industrial InternetPrinted circuit assemblies manufacturing1,516
- Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - ALLGeneral hospital1,093FTE
- CNH Industrial AmericaAdministrative services900
- SC JohnsonDisinfectants, household-type and industrial, manufacturing816
- InSinkEratorGarbage disposal units, household-type, manufacturing742
- SC JohnsonCorporate offices722
- NestleChocolate bars made from cocoa beans513
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 218 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 27,874 people in all across the county; Wind Lake has none 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively 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 Racine 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 Racine County and the Racine, WI metro.
Wind Lake home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wind Lake$490,842
- 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.
- Wind Lake17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wind Lake6
Zip codes with a Wind Lake address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wind Lake — 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.