DeForest, Wisconsin

DeForest population, 2020 to 2024

DeForest added 1,441 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.3%. In the latest year it moved by +380. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 4th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so DeForest is 98% of it.

DeForest covers 9.42 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 1,301 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so DeForest is less dense than the typical town.

What county DeForest is in

All of DeForest's residents live in Dane County, which had 588,347 residents in 2024. DeForest holds 2.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in DeForest

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap DeForest by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 53532, 53598. 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 DeForest is

The Census internal point of DeForest is at 43.227300, -89.345700. Madison, the capital, is 10.7 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Waunakee, WI (16,363 people), 5.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Madison, WI, 10.5 miles away.

Daylight in DeForest

At 43.23° N, DeForest 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 25 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near DeForest

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Windsor, 3.5 miles away, with 10,005 people.