Hayward, Wisconsin

Hayward population, 2020 to 2024

Hayward added 52 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.1%. In the latest year it moved by +22.

Hayward covers 3.73 square miles of land and 0.24 of water, for 694 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Hayward is less dense than the typical town.

What county Hayward is in

All of Hayward's residents live in Sawyer County, which had 18,835 residents in 2024. Hayward holds 13.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hayward

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hayward by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 54843. 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 Hayward is

The Census internal point of Hayward is at 46.006600, -91.489700. Madison, the capital, is 227.5 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rice Lake, WI (8,971 people), 38.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Paul, MN, 107.1 miles away.

Daylight in Hayward

At 46.01° N, Hayward gets about 15 h 45 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 38 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 07 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hayward

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Spooner, 22.8 miles away, with 2,494 people.