Kaukauna, Wisconsin

Kaukauna population, 2020 to 2024

Kaukauna added 1,232 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.2%. In the latest year it moved by +218. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 19th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Kaukauna is 1.5 times that size.

Kaukauna covers 8.23 square miles of land and 0.41 of water, for 2,231 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Kaukauna is denser than the typical town.

What county Kaukauna is in

All of Kaukauna's residents live in Outagamie County, which had 195,390 residents in 2024. Kaukauna holds 9.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kaukauna

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Kaukauna by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 54130. 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 Kaukauna is

The Census internal point of Kaukauna is at 44.277700, -88.265100. Madison, the capital, is 100.2 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Appleton, WI (75,344 people), 6.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Green Bay, WI, 21.7 miles away.

Daylight in Kaukauna

At 44.28° N, Kaukauna gets about 15 h 31 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kaukauna

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Combined Locks, 2.4 miles away, with 3,613 people.