Brookfield, Wisconsin

Brookfield population, 2020 to 2024

Brookfield lost 210 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +128. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 119th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Brookfield is 3.3 times that size.

Brookfield covers 27.35 square miles of land and 0.37 of water, for 1,509 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Brookfield is close to the typical town.

What county Brookfield is in

All of Brookfield's residents live in Waukesha County, which had 417,029 residents in 2024. Brookfield holds 9.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Brookfield

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Brookfield by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 53005, 53045. 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 Brookfield is

The Census internal point of Brookfield is at 43.064300, -88.117800. Madison, the capital, is 63.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wauwatosa, WI (48,794 people), 4.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Milwaukee, WI, 7.6 miles away.

Daylight in Brookfield

At 43.06° N, Brookfield gets about 15 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Brookfield

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Elm Grove, 1.9 miles away, with 6,416 people.