Barron, Wisconsin

Barron population, 2020 to 2024

Barron lost 56 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.5%. In the latest year it moved by -18.

Barron covers 2.91 square miles of land and 0.13 of water, for 1,263 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Barron is less dense than the typical town.

What county Barron is in

All of Barron's residents live in Barron County, which had 46,810 residents in 2024. Barron holds 7.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Barron

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Barron by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 54812. 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 Barron is

The Census internal point of Barron is at 45.402200, -91.844300. Madison, the capital, is 201.7 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rice Lake, WI (8,971 people), 7.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Paul, MN, 68.9 miles away.

Daylight in Barron

At 45.40° N, Barron gets about 15 h 40 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Barron

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Cameron, 5.1 miles away, with 1,851 people.