Best PlacesPleasant Prairie, WI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Pleasant Prairie, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Pleasant Prairie ranks 4,355th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on big-city access by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Pleasant Prairie
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.
Pleasant Prairie's strengths and weaknesses
Where Pleasant Prairie ranks high
- Big-city accessBetter than 94% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 93% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 93% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 92% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 90% of towns
Where Pleasant Prairie ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 9% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 9% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,303 a month, better than only 10% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 13% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than only 37% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Pleasant Prairie
A household needs to earn about $100,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Pleasant Prairie home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $105,034, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
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 Pleasant Prairie's effective rate of 1.40%, 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.
Who lives in Pleasant Prairie
Pleasant Prairie runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Pleasant Prairie.
Who works in Pleasant Prairie, and how
Work in Pleasant Prairie centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 85%
- Work from home 12%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Pleasant Prairie
Pleasant Prairie has more restaurants and bars per resident than 90% of towns and more parkland per resident than 98% of towns. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Pleasant Prairie and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Pleasant Prairie, month by month
Pleasant Prairie sees roughly 101 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 84 degrees. January highs sit near 33, with lows near 19. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 33° | 26° | 19° |
| April | 58° | 47° | 38° |
| July | 84° | 74° | 64° |
| October | 64° | 54° | 45° |
Flying in and out of Pleasant Prairie
General Mitchell International sits about 28 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 2.9 million passengers in 2025, with 66 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Pleasant Prairie
Schools across Pleasant Prairie average a C, better than 38% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Prairie Lane ElementaryB+ · 53% proficient
- Jeffery ElementaryB · 50% proficient
- Bristol ElementaryB · 49% proficient
Top middle schools
- Mahone MiddleB− · 42% proficient
- Lance MiddleC · 33% proficient
- North Prairie Jr HighD− · 15% proficient
Top high schools
- Lakeview Technology AcademyB+ · 55% proficient
- Central HighC+ · 37% proficient
- Indian Trail High School And AcademyC− · 28% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Pleasant Prairie school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Pleasant Prairie 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 Pleasant Prairie against the other 50,332 towns.
Who Pleasant Prairie suits
Families
Schools land around the 38th percentile and crime safety beats 86%.
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 84% of towns, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 12% already work from home.
Retirees
The weather beats 69% of towns and health care access beats 89%.
Common questions about living in Pleasant Prairie
Is Pleasant Prairie a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Pleasant Prairie ranks 4,355th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on big-city access, cheap car insurance, and few empty homes, and lowest on noise and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Pleasant Prairie expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $353,702. The overall cost of living runs about 1% below the national average. Set against a $105,034 median income, cost of living beats 84% of towns.
Is Pleasant Prairie safe?
Yes, Pleasant Prairie is safer than 86% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $215 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Pleasant Prairie?
July highs average about 84 degrees, and January highs near 33 with lows near 19. That works out to about 101 pleasant days a year, more than 69% of towns.
Is Pleasant Prairie good for families?
Schools beat 38% of towns, crime safety beats 86%, and childcare runs $1,303 a month.
Compare Pleasant Prairie with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Pleasant Prairie. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Pleasant Prairie 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.
Pleasant Prairie detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Pleasant Prairie: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Pleasant Prairie: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Pleasant Prairie: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Pleasant Prairie: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Pleasant Prairie detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- 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.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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