Oak Creek, Wisconsin

Oak Creek population, 2020 to 2024

Oak Creek added 1,699 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.6%. In the latest year it moved by +565. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 36th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Oak Creek is 3.1 times that size.

Oak Creek covers 28.45 square miles of land, for 1,349 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Oak Creek is less dense than the typical town.

What county Oak Creek is in

All of Oak Creek's residents live in Milwaukee County, which had 924,740 residents in 2024. Oak Creek holds 4.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Oak Creek

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Oak Creek by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 53154. 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 Oak Creek is

The Census internal point of Oak Creek is at 42.878700, -87.898700. Madison, the capital, is 76.3 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is West Allis, WI (59,784 people), 11.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Milwaukee, WI, 13.2 miles away.

Daylight in Oak Creek

At 42.88° N, Oak Creek 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 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Oak Creek

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is South Milwaukee, 3.0 miles away, with 20,233 people.