Housing in Avenues West at a glance
- Population
- about 10,775
- Housing units
- about 4,742
- Median gross rent
- $830 a monthMilwaukee: $1,059 (-22%)
- Owner-occupied homes
- 2.8%Milwaukee: 41.8%
- Homes built before 1980
- 81.4%
- Median year built
- 1954
Close to the centre of Milwaukee, Avenues West is almost entirely a rental area. Owners are only 2.8% of households, 39 points below the city overall and the lowest share of the ten sectors profiled, with 110 owning against 3,797 renting. Rent is the lowest of the ten as well, $830 monthly, 22% under Milwaukee overall. The homes are old, 81.4% from before 1980, ninth-highest on that list, and construction centres on 1954. Muskego Way and Historic Mitchell Street, nearby, see rents of $950 and $920, with owner shares of 32.4% and 25.3%, so even they hold far more owners. Avenues West itself has 10,775 residents.
Questions about Avenues West
What is the median rent in Avenues West?
$830 a month in gross rent (rent plus utilities paid by the renter), against $1,059 in Milwaukee (Payotte estimate from Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year data for the census tracts within the official boundary).
Do most people in Avenues West own or rent?
Most rent: 2.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, against 41.8% in Milwaukee (Payotte estimate from Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year data for the census tracts within the official boundary).
How old are the homes in Avenues West?
81.4% of housing units were built before 1980; the median year built is 1954 (Payotte estimate from Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year data for the census tracts within the official boundary).
Data and method
Data as of: American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, U.S. Census Bureau (retrieved 2026-11-02).
Estimate from the 5 census tracts whose internal point lies within the official boundary: counts are summed, and each median is recomputed from the summed value, rent and year-built brackets (grouped median, linear interpolation). The gap with the city is measured with the same method on the whole city.
Avenues West is one of the 10 most populous of 190 neighborhoods of Milwaukee: estimated population about 10,775 (Payotte estimate: Census ACS 2020-2024 populations of the census tracts whose internal point lies inside the boundary; boundaries from City of Milwaukee GIS, Neighborhoods, consulted 2026-11-02).
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, tables B01003, B25001, B25003, B25034, B25063, B25064, B25075, B25077; U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 Gazetteer files (census tract internal points). City figures: the same survey, published for Milwaukee as a whole. Home values are owners' estimates, not sale prices.
Near Avenues West
The closest sectors of Milwaukee, by distance between population centres.
Other sectors of Milwaukee
Five trades, one spot each
Payotte lists one professional per trade in Avenues West. No one is listed yet: every spot is open.
- Real estate agentOpen spot
- Mortgage loan officerOpen spot
- Home inspectorOpen spot
- Real estate attorneyOpen spot
- AppraiserOpen spot
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