Ashland, Wisconsin

Ashland population, 2020 to 2024

Ashland added 34 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +24. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 89th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Ashland is 63% of it.

Ashland covers 13.37 square miles of land and 0.26 of water, for 594 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Ashland is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ashland is in

All of Ashland's residents live in Ashland County, which had 16,196 residents in 2024. Ashland holds 49.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ashland

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ashland by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 54806. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Ashland is

The Census internal point of Ashland is at 46.581800, -90.871900. Madison, the capital, is 253.0 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Superior, WI (26,620 people), 57.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Paul, MN, 155.9 miles away.

Daylight in Ashland

At 46.58° N, Ashland gets about 15 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 34 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ashland

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Washburn, 6.7 miles away, with 2,055 people.