What should you know before moving to Somers?
Somers's standout: natural-hazard risk is low. Overall it grades C−, 338th of 357 graded towns in Wisconsin. Its weakest subject is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $386K, 4.7 years of the Kenosha metro’s $81K median household income. Somers is home to University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Only 52 of Wisconsin’s 869 towns score lower on civic life. Somers’ median age is 34.9 years, below both Wisconsin’s towns (42.1 years) and U.S. towns (40.5 years).
What makes Somers stand out
Where Somers beats most towns.
15% of Somers is in college
How Somers grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Wisconsin), ordered by how far Somers is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Somers: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Somers, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Somers.
Conserved land covers 2.7% of Somers
20 miles of trail in 4 parks and preserves. Somers’ trail density is 0.8 miles per square mile. The biggest place to walk is Petrifying Springs County Park, 185 acres with 3 miles of trail.
| Somers | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.8 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 2.7% | 3.8% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Petrifying Springs County Park | 3 mi | 185 |
| 2. Hawthorn Hollow Nature Center | 0.2 mi | 66 |
| 3. Somers Memorial Park | — | 15 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Somers’ schools rank behind 79% of Wisconsin districts
Its public schools are run by the Kenosha School District. Its two schools are below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Somers ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 560 | B− |
| Shoreland Lutheran High School PrivateLargest high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 423 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within WI on state tests and graduation
Very low risk in Somers, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 92% of U.S. communities. Since 2001, 2 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Somers.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most of Somers’ workers commute out: the town has 0.6 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Somers for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Kenosha (27%), Pleasant Prairie (9%) and Racine (6%).
| Somers | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 2.6% | 8.4% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 25 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 8.7% | 6.3% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Somers is healthier than 68% of U.S. towns
Its B+ for health tops all 3 graded neighbors; Mount Pleasant (B−) comes closest.
Somers beats the Wisconsin average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0. 19% of adults binge drink in Somers.
| Somers | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 20% | 16% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 13% | 14% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 30% | 33% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 32% | 36% |
| What stands out | Somers | WI |
|---|---|---|
| More adults seeing a dentist | 70.7% | 67.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Somers has four seasons and pleasant summers
Somers has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 82°, January nights drop to 16° and about 36 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
More young adults than Wisconsin overall
Adults 18 to 34 are 29% of residents (22% statewide); people 65 and older are 14% of residents (19% statewide). 42% of Somers adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more. Somers has lost 2.8% of its people since 2020, down to 8,171 in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Somers | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 42% | 32% | 29% |
| Aged 65 or older | 14% | 20% | 18% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.7 points. Across Wisconsin, 49.9% of residents are women.
| Somers | WI | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10.6% | 11.2% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 10.2% | 10.2% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 18.3% | 9.3% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 10.9% | 12.6% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 11.1% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 11.3% | 11.8% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 13.4% | 13.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 8.5% | 11.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 5.6% | 7.3% | 7% |
| No diploma | 3% | 6.4% | 10.4% |
| High school | 22.7% | 29.4% | 26% |
| Some college | 20.6% | 19.5% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 11.7% | 11.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 24.9% | 22% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 17.1% | 11.4% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Somers’ grade for cost of living is a C−
Typical home values rose 9% in the year to September 2026. The median rent in Somers is $1,455 a month.
| Somers | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 63% | 74% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,455 a month | $1,076 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Six Flags Great America and 34 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Somers. Close and well known come first.
Big draw19 mi Theme parkSix Flags Great America3.0M visitors a year
28 mi Stadium & arenaFiserv Forum
27 mi MuseumMilwaukee Art Museum350K visitors a year
28 mi Stadium & arenaUW–Milwaukee Panther Arena
28 mi TheatreAlpine Valley Music Theatre
27 mi MuseumHarley-Davidson Museum300K visitors a yearPhoto credits
Six Flags Great America: Feather Better, CC BY 4.0 · Fiserv Forum: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Milwaukee Art Museum: Michael Hicks (Mulad), CC BY 2.0 · UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena: Shadowlink1014, Public domain · Alpine Valley Music Theatre: chad davis, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Harley-Davidson Museum: Dori, CC BY-SA 3.0 us
Everything we know about Somers
Colleges nearby
5 within 15 miles of the center of Somers
College town 15 of every 100 Somers residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Wisconsin.
97% of working residents leave Somers for work
Where Somers’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Famous people from Somers
5 notable people were born in Somers.
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About Somers
City in Kenosha County, Wisconsin
Somers is a village in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 8,402 at the 2020 census. Somers has a post office with ZIP code 53171. The former unincorporated communities of Berryville, Central Park, and Kellogg's Corners are located in the village. The village of Somers was incorporated on April 24, 2015, following a local election that favored incorporation. While the village originally only included the eastern half of the town's former boundaries, it now includes almost all of the original town; the remainder is still a town and is slated to become part of Kenosha by 2035.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 2.5 sq mi
- Elevation
- 679 ft
- ZIP code
- 53171
- Area code
- 262
Somers’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Somers.
| Town | WI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Somers · Somers | #338 | C− | C− | — | C− | B+ |
| Kenosha | #333 | C− | C+ | C+ | C− | C+ |
| Paris | — | — | C+ | — | A− | B− |
| Mount Pleasant | #328 | C | C | B− | D | B− |
Paris has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Somers and Paris report no FBI crime data of their own. Somers and Somers are one community, graded once. Compare Somers with a neighbor →
Questions about Somers
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Somers, WI a good place to live?
Somers grades C− overall, better than 19% of U.S. towns and #338 of 357 in Wisconsin. It grades B+ for health and C− for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Somers, WI expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.
What is Somers, WI known for?
5 notable people were born here, including Margaret Landon and William H. Flett.