Wisconsin · Census place 5524550
Evansville, Wisconsin
Evansville is a city in Rock County, Wisconsin with an estimated 5,819 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 143rd largest of 370 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 5,819
- #143 of 370 in Wisconsin
- Change since 2020
- +1.8%
- +101 people
- Land area
- 3.6 sq mi
- + 0.06 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,599 / sq mi
- State median 1,583
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Evansville population, 2020 to 2024
Evansville added 101 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.8%. In the latest year it moved by +25. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 64th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Evansville is 46% of it.
Evansville covers 3.64 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 1,599 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Evansville is close to the typical town.
What county Evansville is in
All of Evansville's residents live in Rock County, which had 165,461 residents in 2024. Evansville holds 3.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Evansville
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Evansville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 53536. 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 Evansville is
The Census internal point of Evansville is at 42.778200, -89.294800. Madison, the capital, is 21.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Stoughton, WI (13,134 people), 10.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Madison, WI, 22.4 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 42.778200, -89.294800
- DMS
- 42°46'41.52"N 89°17'41.28"W
- UTM
- 16N 312279.3E 4738738.6N
- Geohash
- dp8e25990
- Plus code
- 86JGQPH4+73
Daylight in Evansville
At 42.78° N, Evansville gets about 15 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Evansville
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Brooklyn, 6.4 miles away, with 1,533 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Evansville, WI?
5,819 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 101 (1.8%) from 5,718 in July 2020.
What county is Evansville in?
Rock County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Evansville?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 53536.
How far is Evansville from Madison?
21.0 miles (33.8 km) in a straight line, heading NNW from Evansville.
What is the nearest larger city to Evansville?
Stoughton, WI, with 13,134 residents, 10.7 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.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.