Cottage Grove, Wisconsin

Cottage Grove population, 2020 to 2024

Cottage Grove added 1,588 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +21.5%. In the latest year it moved by +150. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 1st; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Cottage Grove is 72% of it.

Cottage Grove covers 4.69 square miles of land, for 1,913 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Cottage Grove is denser than the typical town.

What county Cottage Grove is in

All of Cottage Grove's residents live in Dane County, which had 588,347 residents in 2024. Cottage Grove holds 1.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cottage Grove

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cottage Grove by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 53527. 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 Cottage Grove is

The Census internal point of Cottage Grove is at 43.092200, -89.205300. Madison, the capital, is 9.1 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is McFarland, WI (9,224 people), 6.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Madison, WI, 11.3 miles away.

Daylight in Cottage Grove

At 43.09° N, Cottage Grove 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 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cottage Grove

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is McFarland, 6.4 miles away, with 9,224 people.