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Place dossier plate
SheetWI-MUSKEGO-WI · Muskego, WI 25,156 pop · income 86th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Muskego
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Muskego on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Barstow · lowest
51,811
Barstow · lowest
51,811 median HH income
35.2% of the leader · rank #1
Lone Jack · near
116,328
Lone Jack · near
116,328 median HH income
78.9% of the leader · rank #2
East Kapolei · near
116,339
East Kapolei · near
116,339 median HH income
78.9% of the leader · rank #3
Muskego · this city
116,361
Muskego · this city
116,361 median HH income
78.9% of the leader · rank #4
Mapleton · near
116,364
Mapleton · near
116,364 median HH income
78.9% of the leader · rank #5
St. Augusta · near
116,384
St. Augusta · near
116,384 median HH income
79.0% of the leader · rank #6
Mequon · highest
147,391
Mequon · highest
147,391 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Muskego on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 25,156.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Muskego - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Muskego places in the 86th percentile for household income and the 45th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
86th
percentile, household income
76th
percentile, home value
29th
percentile, median rent
45th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Muskego, WI
Muskego is a small city in Wisconsin, home to 25,156 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $116,361 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.7%. Home values in Muskego run a median of $390,900, and the median resident age is 45.8 years. Educational attainment runs 45.0% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 66.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 43 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 47% from five years earlier. Muskego reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1544.0 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Wisconsin run below the national norm: the state registers 94.1 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,097 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Wisconsin run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Muskego report an average commute of 19.5 minutes, with 80.5% driving alone and 15.8% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 59.1 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Muskego's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from comparison shortlist to population change to work and mobility to reported crime to housing and income to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Muskego, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Muskego?
Within Wisconsin, the closest population matches are Mequon (25,259 residents, $147,391 income); Caledonia (25,292 residents, $91,053 income); De Pere (25,368 residents, $80,550 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Edgewood, MD (25,170 residents); Carteret, NJ (25,187 residents); Simpsonville, SC (25,125 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +499 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 43 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What does the journey to work look like in Muskego?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 80.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.5 minutes.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Muskego?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1544.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 32% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Muskego?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
Household income
$116,361
Home value
$390,900
Value / income
3.4×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 45.0% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
Matched public schools
5
Bachelor's degree+
45.0%
Poverty estimate
1.7%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Wisconsin average
A-
City profile score · Muskego, WI
83/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Violent crime A+
12 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate A
1.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income A-
$116,361
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
45.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living B-
94.1 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Muskego profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 94/100 (A+) · 12 /100k
Poverty rate: 88/100 (A) · 1.7%
Household income: 84/100 (A-) · $116,361
Bachelor's+ share: 79/100 (B+) · 45.0%
Cost of living: 68/100 (B-) · 94.1 index
Where Muskego sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Muskego's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Muskego highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Muskego, WI (this city): home $390,900, crime 1,544/100k
Carteret, NJ : home $370,200, crime 1,576/100k
Simpsonville, SC : home $267,500, crime 2,822/100k
Barstow, CA : home $222,600, crime 3,747/100k
Dinuba, CA : home $267,300, crime 2,768/100k
Mequon, WI : home $485,300, crime 598/100k
Caledonia, WI : home $279,400, crime 533/100k
De Pere, WI : home $253,900, crime 644/100k
Stevens Point, WI : home $189,700, crime 783/100k
Superior, WI : home $168,500, crime 2,425/100k
Neenah, WI : home $194,700, crime 1,299/100k
How does Muskego compare to other US cities?
Here's how Muskego stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income86% higher than other cities
Home value76% pricier than other cities
Median rent29% pricier than other cities
Safety45% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Wisconsin and the picture shifts: Muskego ranks #149 of 202 Wisconsin cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Muskego against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Wisconsin only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Wisconsin-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Muskego near the bottom of Wisconsin's cities
Among the 761 Wisconsin cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Muskego ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Muskego only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#35 of 753
95th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 761
0th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Home Value
#38 of 754
95th percentile in Wisconsin
Poverty Rate
#607 of 761
19th percentile in Wisconsin
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#73 of 761
90th percentile in Wisconsin
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Wisconsin only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
86th percentile nationally for median household income · 45th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Muskego's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Muskego's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Muskego's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$390,90024th percentilemore affordable than 24% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Muskego's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,382 of 15,516
More affordable than 46% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,350 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.4×, Muskego sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,382 of 15,516 and #1,350 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$116,361Muskego, WI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Muskego, WI median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Muskego, WI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)45.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
25,156
Median Income
$116,361
Median Home Value
$390,900
Median Age
45.8
Poverty Rate
1.7%
Labor force participation
66.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
45.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1544.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
11.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1532.2
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Muskego's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
25,103 residents
2021
25,162 residents
2022
25,405 residents
2023
25,551 residents
2024
25,678 residents
2025
25,602 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
43
housing units authorized
Single-Family
29
detached homes
Multifamily
14
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
81
43
38
$23.4M
2020
95
67
28
$27.5M
2021
36
32
4
$16.7M
2022
91
31
60
$33.9M
2023
64
36
28
$28.4M
2024
43
29
14
$25.2M
Permit volume decreased 47% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.5 minutes
Drive Alone
80.5%
Carpool
2.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
15.8%
Based on 13,648 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Wisconsin statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Wisconsin at $225 (electricity about $100 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are Wisconsin statewide averages, not a meter reading for Muskego. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Wisconsin's BEA cost-of-living index is 94.1 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Muskego is $1,097/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Wisconsin statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 59.1 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Wisconsin statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Muskego sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Muskego compares to similar-size Wisconsin cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.