Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin

Fort Atkinson population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Atkinson lost 202 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.6%. In the latest year it moved by -2. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 139th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Fort Atkinson is 99% of it.

Fort Atkinson covers 5.85 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 2,116 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Fort Atkinson is denser than the typical town.

What county Fort Atkinson is in

All of Fort Atkinson's residents live in Jefferson County, which had 86,245 residents in 2024. Fort Atkinson holds 14.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Atkinson

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fort Atkinson by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 53538. 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 Fort Atkinson is

The Census internal point of Fort Atkinson is at 42.924000, -88.845500. Madison, the capital, is 29.1 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Whitewater, WI (16,076 people), 8.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Madison, WI, 31.6 miles away.

Daylight in Fort Atkinson

At 42.92° N, Fort Atkinson gets about 15 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fort Atkinson

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Jefferson, 5.8 miles away, with 7,766 people.