Columbus, Wisconsin

Columbus population, 2020 to 2024

Columbus lost 102 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.8%. In the latest year it moved by -34. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 142nd; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Columbus is 43% of it.

Columbus covers 4.54 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,196 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Columbus is less dense than the typical town.

What county Columbus is in

All of Columbus's residents live in Columbia County, which had 58,113 residents in 2024. Columbus holds 9.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Columbus

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Columbus by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 53925. 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 Columbus is

The Census internal point of Columbus is at 43.336800, -89.030000. Madison, the capital, is 25.4 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Beaver Dam, WI (16,443 people), 13.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Madison, WI, 26.5 miles away.

Daylight in Columbus

At 43.34° N, Columbus gets about 15 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 58 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Columbus

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Fall River, 3.5 miles away, with 1,853 people.