Baraboo, Wisconsin

Baraboo population, 2020 to 2024

Baraboo added 559 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.5%. In the latest year it moved by +223. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 38th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Baraboo is 1.0 times that size.

Baraboo covers 7.56 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,732 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Baraboo is close to the typical town.

What county Baraboo is in

All of Baraboo's residents live in Sauk County, which had 66,486 residents in 2024. Baraboo holds 19.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Baraboo

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Baraboo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 53913. 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 Baraboo is

The Census internal point of Baraboo is at 43.468100, -89.738400. Madison, the capital, is 32.5 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Waunakee, WI (16,363 people), 24.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Madison, WI, 30.5 miles away.

Daylight in Baraboo

At 43.47° N, Baraboo gets about 15 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 57 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Baraboo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is West Baraboo, 1.9 miles away, with 1,586 people.