Milton, Wisconsin

Milton population, 2020 to 2024

Milton added 69 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.2%. In the latest year it moved by +62. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 71st; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Milton is 46% of it.

Milton covers 4.71 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,227 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Milton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Milton is in

All of Milton's residents live in Rock County, which had 165,461 residents in 2024. Milton holds 3.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Milton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Milton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 53563. 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 Milton is

The Census internal point of Milton is at 42.774700, -88.940000. Madison, the capital, is 30.6 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Janesville, WI (66,428 people), 7.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Madison, WI, 32.9 miles away.

Daylight in Milton

At 42.77° N, Milton gets about 15 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Milton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Janesville, 7.2 miles away, with 66,428 people.