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The median home value in Waukesha, WI is $428,498 as of 2026-07-31, up 6.34% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$428,498
Year-over-Year
+6.34%
Population
70,202
Waukesha ranks #39 of 124 Wisconsin cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 21.9% above the state's city median of $351,517. It sits in Waukesha County, where the county-wide median is $512,586.
Waukesha police recorded a violent crime rate of 114 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 875 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Waukesha, that value is $428,498. That's up 6.34% from a year earlier. It is about 21.9% above the typical Wisconsin city tracked here.
Homes in Waukesha are cheaper than Waukesha County as a whole, where the median is $512,586 — a difference of about 16.4%.
Waukesha police reported 114 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 70,202. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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