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How Sheboygan's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Sheboygan?
Your $100,000 in Sheboygan has the same purchasing power as $112,435 in the average US city. You'd need $12,435 less here to maintain that standard of living.
Demographics and workforce data from the US Census ACS 5-Year.
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Climate, safety, and walkability indicators.
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Within 10 points of Sheboygan's cost index of 89, sorted by closest match.
These are the reasons people actually move to Sheboygan, ordered roughly by what shows up loudest in the data. Living costs come in under the US baseline and low unemployment, plenty of openings lead, plus 4 more things worth knowing — the rest unpacked below.
The composite cost-of-living index lands at 89, a comfortable 11% under the US norm. It shows up most clearly in housing, which is where the gap to coastal metros usually opens up. Median rent in town runs about $853/mo against a typical household income of $59,861, which is the kind of ratio that leaves room to save.
At about 3.4% unemployment, Sheboygan's labor market is running on the tight side. Easier to land a role, easier to negotiate, easier to leave one job for a better one — the practical things that matter when you're actually looking.
The reported crime rate in Sheboygan runs about 1,751 per 100,000 residents — meaningfully below the national norm. People who care about safety as a baseline rather than a feature tend to land in cities with numbers like these.
Bike Score of 67/100 in Sheboygan. That puts it in the small group of US cities where you can do groceries, commute, and run errands on a bike without it being a feat of urban survival.
Average AQI in Sheboygan comes in around 34, well into the "good" band. Clean air isn't a thing you appreciate until you've lived somewhere it wasn't — and this is the side of that line you want to be on.
Average commute time in Sheboygan runs around 16 minutes one-way — short enough that it doesn't restructure your day. Compared to the 45-plus-minute commutes that are normal in major metros, the difference adds up to a real lifestyle gap.
Reasons are pulled from Sheboygan's actual data — Census ACS, BLS, BEA, NOAA, EPA AQS, FBI, and Walk Score. We don't list positives that aren't supported by the numbers, which is why different cities show different sections.
Sheboygan does winter the real way. Averages around 20°F keep snow on the ground for weeks at a time, and lakes and rivers tend to freeze hard enough to walk on.
Properly cold. Sheboygan's winter sits around 20°F on average — and that's the average, meaning plenty of nights drop well below zero. People here own gear.
Warm without being brutal. Summer in Sheboygan sits about 80°F on average. Afternoons can push into the high 80s, but mornings and evenings are usually genuinely pleasant.
Zone 7, give or take a half-zone. Sheboygan's typical winter low puts it in that band on the USDA Hardiness map, which is what nurseries label plants against. Use Zone 7 as your starting filter; the USDA's interactive map is more precise for borderline cases.
Roughly 666 feet (203 m). That's modest elevation — comparable to most inland-Midwest and Southern cities.
The headline number is reassuring. Sheboygan's reported incident rate of about 1,751 per 100,000 is comfortably below the US norm of around 3,500 per 100k. Specific neighborhoods always vary, but the broader picture is on the safer side.
Sheboygan is a genuinely affordable city by US standards. The composite index sits at 89 versus the 100 national baseline — about 11% cheaper overall, with housing doing most of the heavy lifting.
Sheboygan scores 49 out of 100 on Walk Score, which translates to "car-dependent but not aggressively so". Some neighborhoods buck the citywide average; the dense inner cores are usually noticeably more walkable than the city number suggests.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $62,258 to live in Sheboygan the way a $70,000 earner lives in a typical US city. The math gets less forgiving the lower you go below that. Median rent in Sheboygan runs about $853/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.