Wisconsin · Census place 5527000

Fox Lake, Wisconsin

Fox Lake is a city in Dodge County, Wisconsin with an estimated 1,682 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 285th largest of 370 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,682
#285 of 370 in Wisconsin
Change since 2020
+4.9%
+78 people
Land area
1.7 sq mi
+ 0.05 sq mi water
Density
1,019 / sq mi
State median 1,583
Orange pin: Fox Lake. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Madison.

Fox Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Fox Lake added 78 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.9%. In the latest year it moved by +8.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,606. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Fox Lake covers 1.65 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 1,019 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Fox Lake is less dense than the typical town.

What county Fox Lake is in

All of Fox Lake's residents live in Dodge County, which had 88,635 residents in 2024. Fox Lake holds 1.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fox Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fox Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 53933. 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 Fox Lake is

The Census internal point of Fox Lake is at 43.561600, -88.914800. Madison, the capital, is 41.1 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Randolph, WI (1,762 people), 4.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Madison, WI, 41.8 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
43.561600, -88.914800
DMS
43°33'41.76"N 88°54'53.28"W
UTM
16N 345355.3E 4824963.7N
Geohash
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Plus code
86MHH36P+J3

Daylight in Fox Lake

At 43.56° N, Fox Lake gets about 15 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fox Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Randolph, 4.7 miles away, with 1,762 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Fox Lake, WI?

1,682 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 78 (4.9%) from 1,604 in July 2020.

What county is Fox Lake in?

Dodge County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Fox Lake?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 53933.

How far is Fox Lake from Madison?

41.1 miles (66.1 km) in a straight line, heading SW from Fox Lake.

What is the nearest larger city to Fox Lake?

Randolph, WI, with 1,762 residents, 4.7 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.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.