Twenty-three communities in four groups, one page each — carrying that municipality’s own sidewalk clock, its own parking hours and the snow measured in its own streets, not a county average.
Every match made through this site is with an independent plow operator working under that operator’s own business name and insurance. The site introduces; the operator clears.
Waukesha County holds 417,210 people in 37 cities, villages and towns across 576 square miles, by the county’s own count. On the Census Bureau’s ACS 2020–2024 figures its median household income is $106,076, the highest of Wisconsin’s 72 counties, and 76.0 percent of its 168,658 households own the home they live in. The median home is valued at $398,200. The county’s housing has a median year built of 1981, fourteen years newer than the Milwaukee–Waukesha metro’s 1967.
One of those numbers is regularly misquoted. The four-county metro is 60.4 percent owner-occupied, and that figure turns up in market summaries as if it described this county. It does not. Milwaukee County sits at 49.9 percent and pulls the metro average down; Waukesha County on its own is 76.0, Brookfield is 82.8, Elm Grove 88.5, the Town of Delafield 92.3 and the Town of Merton 95.1. The distinction matters for one practical reason: a renter does not sign a seasonal plow contract, and the metro figure would suggest four in ten households here are renters when the true count is closer to one in four. The county seat, the City of Waukesha at 58.8 percent, is the market’s name rather than its most typical customer.
A sidewalk must be cleared within 24 hours in Elm Grove, Menomonee Falls, the Village of Pewaukee, Delafield, Oconomowoc, Sussex, Mukwonago and Wales. Merton allows six daylight hours. Brookfield repealed its owner-duty section outright, Muskego clears the walks with its own equipment, and the City of Waukesha publishes two different clocks on two different city pages. Overnight parking is banned nearly everywhere, but the window runs 2–5, 2–6, 2–7 or 2–8 a.m. depending on where you are, and the season is year-round in one place, November through March in the next and December through March in a third.
Any sentence written about the whole county on those subjects is wrong somewhere in it. That is why each community below has a page of its own, with the section numbers where the research found them and a plain “set by ordinance, not confirmed” where it did not. The county-wide material — who plows which road, why pushing snow into the street is illegal under Wis. Stat. § 346.94(5), what salt does to the lakes — lives under Local Rules.
A 1975 median on lots the city zoned large in 1954; no owner sidewalk duty, but a street-deposit rule that names the contractor.
The oldest housing in the county (median 1962) under its fullest sidewalk chapter: 24 hours, the entire width.
16.5 inches on January 12–13, 2024, and the one city that says which side of the driveway the pile belongs on.
The one village in the county under 52 percent owner-occupied; 14.1 inches measured in the January 2024 storm.
A 1995 median year built, with more than a quarter of its homes standing since 2010.
A snow emergency that declares itself at three inches under § 106-154, and a 24-hour sidewalk rule with salt or sand.
Median year built 1994, a 24-hour sidewalk clock, and a village that sells residents brine at 21 cents a gallon.
A village only since 2023, 94.2 percent owner-occupied, on a 1983 base that is still adding homes.
Home of the NOAA station behind the 13.6-day figure, and $2.00 a lineal foot when the city clears the walk for you.
A city and a village with separate codes and a $46,000 gap in median income, handled on a single page.
A town at 90.3 percent owner-occupied on a 1981 median, on the road west from the city toward the lakes.
24 hours for the sidewalk, cost plus 15 percent if the village does it, and § 419-8F on snow in a cleared street.
§ 42-8, the sharpest snow-pile rule in the county, and a parking restriction that switches on at four inches.
Up 13.1 percent since 2020 on a 1983 median; a $25 citation for a car on the street between 2 and 8 a.m.
Six daylight hours, the shortest sidewalk clock in the county, and the newest housing (median 2000).
Five-acre lots, roads designated private by ordinance, and a village that will plow the driveway for a published fee.
Among the highest-value housing in Wisconsin, 97.9 percent owner-occupied.
A 1993 median with almost half its homes dating from the 1980s and 1990s.
The most post-2010 building of any large municipality (20.4 percent), and a December 1 to March 1 parking ban.
91.2 percent owner-occupied around the county’s western lakes, under village rules rather than city ones.
Where the NWS forecast office keeps its own gauge at the county line: 53.3 inches a year on the 1991–2020 normals.
Mequon is in Ozaukee County. Wauwatosa, River Hills, Fox Point and Whitefish Bay are in Milwaukee County. None of the five is in the service area, none has a page here and none is served through this site, however often they appear next to Brookfield or Elm Grove in a search result. One more correction worth stating: the Town of Lisbon no longer exists. It incorporated as the Village of Lisbon in 2023, and its page is written for the village.
Population figures are the Census Bureau’s Vintage 2025 estimates; income, tenure, home value and year built are ACS 2020–2024 five-year estimates. The smallest villages carry wide margins, and their pages say so.
Say which city, village or town the driveway is in; the rules and the quote both start there.
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