Wisconsin · Census place 5510375

Brown Deer, Wisconsin

Brown Deer is a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin with an estimated 12,527 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 79th largest of 370 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
12,527
#79 of 370 in Wisconsin
Change since 2020
+0.1%
+14 people
Land area
4.4 sq mi
Density
2,854 / sq mi
State median 1,583
Orange pin: Brown Deer. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Madison.

Brown Deer population, 2020 to 2024

Brown Deer added 14 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.1%. In the latest year it moved by -2. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 99th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Brown Deer is 1.0 times that size.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 12,460. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Brown Deer covers 4.39 square miles of land, for 2,854 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Brown Deer is denser than the typical town.

What county Brown Deer is in

All of Brown Deer's residents live in Milwaukee County, which had 924,740 residents in 2024. Brown Deer holds 1.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Brown Deer

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Brown Deer by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 53209, 53223. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Brown Deer is

The Census internal point of Brown Deer is at 43.174300, -87.975000. Madison, the capital, is 71.4 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mequon, WI (25,329 people), 3.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Milwaukee, WI, 7.7 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
43.174300, -87.975000
DMS
43°10'27.48"N 87°58'30.00"W
UTM
16N 420754.1E 4780632.2N
Geohash
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Plus code
86MJ52FF+PX

Daylight in Brown Deer

At 43.17° N, Brown Deer gets about 15 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 59 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Brown Deer

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is River Hills, 2.1 miles away, with 1,541 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Brown Deer, WI?

12,527 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 14 (0.1%) from 12,513 in July 2020.

What county is Brown Deer in?

Milwaukee County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Brown Deer?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 53209, 53223.

How far is Brown Deer from Madison?

71.4 miles (114.9 km) in a straight line, heading W from Brown Deer.

What is the nearest larger city to Brown Deer?

Mequon, WI, with 25,329 residents, 3.2 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.