Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

Fond du Lac population, 2020 to 2024

Fond du Lac lost 205 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +88. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 116th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Fond du Lac is 3.5 times that size.

Fond du Lac covers 19.24 square miles of land and 1.31 of water, for 2,311 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Fond du Lac is denser than the typical town.

What county Fond du Lac is in

All of Fond du Lac's residents live in Fond du Lac County, which had 104,269 residents in 2024. Fond du Lac holds 42.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fond du Lac

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Fond du Lac by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 54935, 54937. 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 Fond du Lac is

The Census internal point of Fond du Lac is at 43.772200, -88.440300. Madison, the capital, is 67.6 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oshkosh, WI (67,242 people), 18.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Milwaukee, WI, 54.4 miles away.

Daylight in Fond du Lac

At 43.77° N, Fond du Lac gets about 15 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 33 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fond du Lac

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is North Fond du Lac, 3.5 miles away, with 5,419 people.