Kenosha vs Pleasant Prairie

A side-by-side comparison of Kenosha and Pleasant Prairie: population, income, housing, and more.

Kenosha and Pleasant Prairie are places in Wisconsin. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Kenosha has the higher population (99,147 vs 21,515 in Pleasant Prairie). Pleasant Prairie has the higher median household income ($103,903 vs $68,532 in Kenosha). Pleasant Prairie has the higher median home value ($336,300 vs $210,500 in Kenosha).

Population, income & housing

	Kenosha	Pleasant Prairie
Population	99,147	21,515
Median age	36.8 yrs	44.2 yrs
Median household income	$68,532	$103,903
Median home value	$210,500	$336,300
Median gross rent	$1,137	$1,446
Housing units	41,998	8,868
Homeownership rate	59.3%	77.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher	28.9%	39.8%
Unemployment rate	4.9%	4.3%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Kenosha	Pleasant Prairie
Population	99,688 → 99,147 (-0.5%)	20,832 → 21,515 (+3.3%)
Median household income	$55,417 → $68,532 (+23.7%)	$86,687 → $103,903 (+19.9%)
Median home value	$152,500 → $210,500 (+38.0%)	$231,200 → $336,300 (+45.5%)
Median gross rent	$908 → $1,137 (+25.2%)	$1,064 → $1,446 (+35.9%)

Kenosha

Population

99,68899,147

Median household income

$55,417$68,532

Median home value

$152,500$210,500

Median gross rent

$908$1,137

Pleasant Prairie

Population

20,83221,515

Median household income

$86,687$103,903

Median home value

$231,200$336,300

Median gross rent

$1,064$1,446

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Kenosha	Pleasant Prairie
Under 5	5.9%	5.0%
5 to 17	18.1%	14.1%
18 to 24	10.6%	7.9%
25 to 34	13.2%	13.8%
35 to 44	14.3%	10.0%
45 to 54	12.4%	14.7%
55 to 64	12.3%	15.7%
65 to 74	7.4%	12.9%
75 and over	6.0%	5.8%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Kenosha	Pleasant Prairie
White (non-Hispanic)	63.2%	80.6%
Black or African American	9.5%	2.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.2%	0.2%
Asian	2.0%	2.2%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.1%	0.1%
Some other race	0.3%	1.4%
Two or more races	5.3%	2.8%
Hispanic or Latino	19.5%	10.7%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Kenosha	Pleasant Prairie
No high school diploma	10.3%	6.5%
High school graduate	28.3%	23.8%
Some college or associate's	32.5%	29.8%
Bachelor's degree	18.0%	27.3%
Graduate or professional degree	10.9%	12.5%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Kenosha	Pleasant Prairie
Drove alone	79.9%	79.3%
Carpooled	7.5%	5.8%
Public transit	0.8%	0.4%
Walked	1.6%	1.6%
Bicycle	0.3%	0.0%
Worked from home	8.5%	12.5%
Other means	1.4%	0.4%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Kenosha	Pleasant Prairie
1-unit, detached	57.6%	70.6%
1-unit, attached	3.9%	2.7%
2 to 4 units	15.0%	2.1%
5 to 19 units	13.8%	6.8%
20 or more units	8.4%	12.4%
Mobile home & other	1.3%	5.4%

Poverty & households

	Kenosha	Pleasant Prairie
Poverty rate	13.8%	7.0%
Average household size	2.43	2.50
Mean commute (minutes)	24	26
Median year structure built	1968	1994