Midwest · Wisconsin · pop 570K
Milwaukee, WI
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in WI, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,111 — covering estimated essentials here (about $986 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,751 left over.
Expect summer highs near 81°F, winter lows around 16°F, and about 190 sunny days a year.
Home prices are within reach relative to local pay — the median home ($165,000) is about 3.4× the median household income.
Tradeoff: reported crime rates are higher than most cities here, so research specific neighborhoods before deciding.
The Milwaukee fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,360/mo
Typical rent
$1,160/mo
Home value ÷ income
3.4×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $990/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,160/mo
- Median home value
- $165,000
- Median household income
- $49,000
- Population
- 570,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 3.7%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 0.4%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 1,300
- Property crime rate
- 3,200
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 81°F
- Avg. winter low
- 16°F
- Sunny days / year
- 190
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈6/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈36/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈9/yr
- Annual rain
- 35"
- Annual snow
- 47"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+37
- Int'l airport
- ≈8 mi
- Walkability
- 62/100
- Disaster risk
- 32/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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