Waukesha Times

Waukesha ranked 225th among cities in Wisconsin by annual earnings per resident, according to data obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau in August.

The median income of Waukesha residents was an inflation-adjusted $31,554 per year. Waukesha had 29,127 households in 2017, with a population of 72,173.

The city with the highest median resident income in the state was Lac La Belle. Lac La Belle's median income was $73,295 per year after adjusting for inflation – $41,741 more than Waukesha. It had 103 households in 2017 and a population of 268.

Whitewater had the lowest annual resident income among cities in Wisconsin, with a median income of only $9,012 per year. That was $22,542 less than the median income in Waukesha at the time. Whitewater had 4,609 households in 2017 and a population of 14,762.

The table below shows the top 100 cities ranked by median annual resident earnings in 2017.

Rank	City	Earnings per resident ($$$)
1	Lac La Belle	73,295
2	Maple Bluff	65,750
3	Shorewood Hills	60,516
4	Fox Point	57,554
5	River Hills	55,875
6	Whitefish Bay	53,861
7	Oconomowoc Lake	53,750
8	Merton	53,669
9	Elm Grove	53,590
10	Chenequa	53,125
11	Bayside	50,446
12	Okauchee Lake	49,223
13	Wind Point	47,829
14	Verona	47,330
15	Pewaukee	46,565
16	Sherwood	46,563
17	Lake Nebagamon	45,625
18	Brookfield	44,489
19	Sobieski	43,929
20	Harrison	43,750
21	Summit	43,602
22	Cottage Grove	43,258
23	Hingham	42,989
24	Windsor	42,861
25	Waunakee	42,652
26	Browns Lake	42,555
27	Richfield	42,461
28	Lebanon	42,344
29	Nashotah	42,344
30	Oregon	42,295
31	Wind Lake	41,923
32	Wales	41,761
33	North Prairie	41,699
34	Eagle Lake	41,643
35	Wauwatosa	41,578
36	Suamico	41,339
37	St. Peter	41,270
38	Cornucopia	41,250
39	Mequon	41,220
40	Belleville	41,176
41	Delafield	41,061
42	Lake Ripley	41,026
43	Ephraim	40,972
44	Fredonia	40,873
45	Sussex	40,815
46	Lodi	40,770
47	Dyckesville	40,667
48	Hobart	40,628
49	North Bay	40,625
50	Oconomowoc	40,519
51	Oak Creek	40,503
52	New Berlin	40,471
53	McFarland	40,407
54	Butte des Morts	40,272
55	Eagle	40,179
56	Hales Corners	40,116
57	Brownsville	39,896
58	Arlington	39,868
59	Kohler	39,778
60	Franklin	39,699
61	Cross Plains	39,689
62	Waterford	39,688
63	Shorewood	39,650
64	North Hudson	39,619
65	Egg Harbor	39,145
66	Muskego	39,128
67	Fall River	39,036
68	Brooklyn	38,958
69	Lake Wisconsin	38,936
70	Hatley	38,906
71	Tichigan	38,860
72	Rockdale	38,750
73	Sandy Hook	38,693
74	Barneveld	38,690
75	Hudson	38,583
76	Middleton	38,365
77	Park Ridge	38,333
78	Mukwonago	38,333
79	Mount Horeb	38,287
80	Allenton	38,147
81	Deerfield	38,125
82	Turtle Lake	38,083
83	Belgium	38,036
84	Slinger	37,917
85	Cedarburg	37,769
86	Hewitt	37,750
87	St. Nazianz	37,524
88	Burnett	37,500
89	Gibbsville	37,396
90	Menomonee Falls	37,378
91	Dane	37,335
92	Johnson Creek	37,250
93	Baileys Harbor	37,125
94	Monona	37,096
95	Knowlton	37,083
96	Wilson	36,964
97	Poynette	36,921
98	DeForest	36,817
99	Cleveland	36,779
100	Fremont	36,696

* All values are inflation-adjusted