Locksmith in Oak Creek, WI

Locksmith in Oak Creek for homes, cars, and business parks

A locksmith in Oak Creek covers a big city: about 28 square miles between Lake Michigan and the county line, with new subdivisions, apartment buildings, warehouses, and the I-94 corridor. We come to you with the tools and keys in the vehicle. A lockout usually takes a few minutes once we arrive, and a rekey or a car key takes 15 to 60 minutes. Oak Creek is about 11 miles south of downtown Milwaukee, and we work there around the clock.

The city that wrote its own law

Oak Creek began as a town split off from the Town of Lake in 1840 and stayed mostly farms and apple orchards for a century. In 1951 the Wisconsin Electric Power Company built a power plant here, and the city of Milwaukee moved to annex the town. Town attorney Tony Basile drafted a new state statute that let a semi-rural town like this one become a city, still known as the "Oak Creek Law." Residents voted in October 1955, and Oak Creek became a city that December. Today about 36,500 people live here, and the city is one of the fastest growing in Wisconsin.

New homes and builder keys

Growth means new houses, and new houses come with a lock problem most owners do not think about. During construction, builders, trades, and real estate agents often use construction keys or lockboxes, and nobody can say how many copies exist. The day you close, rekey. We change the inside of every lock so only your keys work, and the new hardware stays on the door. A first lock rekey starts at $59, and each additional lock on the same visit starts at $20 (rekeying).

New homes often have a keyed garage entry door, a patio door, and sometimes a keypad on the garage, so we go through the whole house with you and leave one key that opens every keyed door.

Drexel Town Square

Oak Creek grew up without a traditional downtown, so it built one. Drexel Town Square stands on about 85 acres where the AC Spark Plug and later Delco Electronics plant once operated, and today it holds apartments, shops, restaurants, health clinics, and the Civic Center with city hall and the library. Apartment residents there call us for lockouts and lost keys, and landlords call us for rekeys between tenants. A house or apartment lockout starts at $69 (house lockout).

Near IKEA and I-94

In May 2018 the first IKEA in Wisconsin opened in Oak Creek, right off I-94, and the stores and restaurants around it keep the parking lots full. It is easy to lock the keys in the car while loading a cart of flat boxes into the back. Tell us the store and the row, and we open the car. If the key is lost, we make a new one at the car, and a key when all are lost starts at $119 (car lockout).

Warehouses, business parks, and fleets

Oak Creek's business parks are full of warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturers, and the city is also home to the headquarters of Master Lock. Businesses here need control over who opens which door: master key systems so supervisors carry one key, keypad entry for shift workers, and quick rekeys when someone leaves with a key. For delivery and service vans, we make spare keys and replace lost ones at the yard, so a van does not sit for a day (fleet keys). A commercial rekey starts at $79 per lock, and a master key system starts at $45 per lock.

Lake Michigan parks

Oak Creek's lakefront, including Lake Vista Park, brings families and visitors down to the water. A car lockout there is handled the same as in a driveway, and it starts at $69.

Oak Creek's neighbors

South Milwaukee borders Oak Creek on the east, and Cudahy and the city of Milwaukee are to the north. Franklin is to the west, and Caledonia in Racine County is to the south. We cover all of them.