What is the population of Milton city?

Milton city has 5,685 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #142 of 807 in Wisconsin.

What is the median household income in Milton city?

Median household income in Milton city is $84,648 a year, 7.8% above the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Milton city?

Median gross rent is $940 a month and the median home value is $210,500, so rent absorbs about 13.3% of median household income.

Is Milton city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Milton city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 13.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Milton, WI population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Milton, Wisconsin (Milton, WI — Census place “Milton city”) is 5,685 residents, ranking #142 of 807 places in Wisconsin. Median household income is $84,648, the median home is worth $210,500 and median gross rent runs $940 a month. Looking for the Milton Wisconsin ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Milton, WI: 53563.

Population: 5,685Milton city residents
Median household income: $84,648Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $210,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $940Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 37.3 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 77.4%Owner-occupied households

Milton ZIP codes (Wisconsin)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Milton.

The Milton WI ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

53563

What the numbers mean in Milton city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Milton city median would spend about 13.3% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 2.5× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 4.3% of residents and 77.4% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Milton city, WI in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Milton city is a mid-size town in Wisconsin, with 5,685 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #142 of 807 ranked by population — larger than 82% of them. The median age here is 37.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Milton city earn a median of $84,648 a year, 7.8% above the national figure of $78,538 and 15% above the $73,880 median for the 395 Wisconsin cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 4.3% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Milton 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 $940 a month, 33.1% below the national figure, or roughly $11,280 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 13.3% 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 2.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 77.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.

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What is the population of Milton city?: Milton city has 5,685 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #142 of 807 in Wisconsin.
What is the median household income in Milton city?: Median household income in Milton city is $84,648 a year, 7.8% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Milton city?: Median gross rent is $940 a month and the median home value is $210,500, so rent absorbs about 13.3% of median household income.
Is Milton city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Milton city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 13.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Milton city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.