Best Places54115, WI Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 54115, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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54115 ranks 2,282nd of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in 54115

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 54115 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

54115's strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%Cheap car insurance
Top 5%Low disaster risk
Top 10%Heat safety
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 54115 with other zip codes.

Where 54115 ranks high

  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than 99% of zip codes
  • Disaster safetyBetter than 97% of zip codes
  • Heat safetyBetter than 93% of zip codes
  • Short commute18.5 minutes each way, better than 90% of zip codes
  • Voter turnoutBetter than 89% of zip codes

Where 54115 ranks low

  • Cheap childcare$1,293 a month, better than only 16% of zip codes
  • Low property taxBetter than only 20% of zip codes
  • QuietBetter than only 27% of zip codes
  • Tree shadeBetter than only 34% of zip codes
  • State infrastructureBetter than only 42% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 54115

A household needs to earn about $95,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 54115 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $95,722, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$95,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$2,225
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $341,374 home
Median rent
$1,118
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,741
Property tax$371
Homeowners insurance$114

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses 54115's effective rate of 1.30%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in 54115

54115 runs younger than the country.

Median age
38
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
17%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.5
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1823%
18 to 3423%
35 to 4919%
50 to 6418%
65 and older17%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 54115.


Who works in 54115, and how

Work in 54115 centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
13%
below the national average
Unemployment
1.7%
below the national average
Job growth
+3.7%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Manufacturing17%
Health care & social14%
Retail trade11%
Education11%
Finance & insurance8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 84%
  • Work from home 13%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 4%

Life in 54115

54115 has more parkland per resident than 92% of zip codes. That concentrates in some parts of 54115 and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
165
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 33.8 per 10,000 residents, more than 50% of zip codes
Coffee shops
27
about 5.5 per 10,000 residents, more than 70% of zip codes
Parkland
639 acres
about 13.1 acres per 1,000 residents, more than 92% of zip codes
Open past 10pm
~29
food and drink venues open late, about 5.9 per 10,000 residents, more than 45% of zip codes
Living on campus
1,650
students living in college or university housing

What the weather is like in 54115, month by month

54115 sees roughly 93 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 84 degrees. January highs sit near 30, with lows near 14. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January30°22°14°
April56°44°34°
July84°72°60°
October63°51°41°

Flying in and out of 54115

The nearest airport, Green Bay/Austin Straubel International, is about 4 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is General Mitchell International, about 103 miles away.

Nearest airport
GRB
Green Bay/Austin Straubel International, about 4 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
165th-busiest in the US, 25 nonstop destinations
Average drive
8 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 54115

Schools across 54115 average a B, better than 68% of zip codes.

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Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 54115 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


54115 measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 54115 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Who 54115 suits

Families

Schools beat 68% of zip codes and crime safety beats 87%.

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Remote workers

Cost of living against local pay beats 86% of zip codes, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 13% already work from home.

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Retirees

The weather beats 58% of zip codes and health care access beats 88%.

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Common questions about living in 54115

Is 54115 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 54115 ranks 2,282nd of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, low disaster risk, and heat safety, and lowest on childcare costs and property taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 54115 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $341,374. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $95,722 median income, cost of living beats 86% of zip codes.

Is 54115 safe?

Yes, 54115 is safer than 87% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $205 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in 54115?

July highs average about 84 degrees, and January highs near 30 with lows near 14. That works out to about 93 pleasant days a year, more than 58% of zip codes.

Is 54115 good for families?

Schools beat 68% of zip codes, crime safety beats 87%, and childcare runs $1,293 a month.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 54115. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 54115 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

54115 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 54115: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 54115: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 54115: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 54115: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

54115 detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.