Kenosha, WI population, income and ZIP codes

Kenosha city is a small city in Wisconsin, with 99,147 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #4 of 807 ranked by population — larger than 99% of them. The median age here is 36.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Kenosha city earn a median of $68,532 a year, 12.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 7% below the $73,880 median for the 395 Wisconsin cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 13.8% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Kenosha city is valued at $210,500, 30.6% below the national figure and within a couple of points of the $211,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,137 a month, 19.1% below the national figure, or roughly $13,644 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 59.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.