Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin

Pleasant Prairie population, 2020 to 2024

Pleasant Prairie added 525 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +99. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 52nd; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Pleasant Prairie is 1.7 times that size.

Pleasant Prairie covers 33.38 square miles of land and 0.31 of water, for 653 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Pleasant Prairie is less dense than the typical town.

What county Pleasant Prairie is in

All of Pleasant Prairie's residents live in Kenosha County, which had 168,754 residents in 2024. Pleasant Prairie holds 12.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pleasant Prairie

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Pleasant Prairie by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 53142, 53158. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Pleasant Prairie is

The Census internal point of Pleasant Prairie is at 42.526700, -87.888300. Madison, the capital, is 84.8 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kenosha, WI (99,578 people), 4.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Milwaukee, WI, 37.3 miles away.

Daylight in Pleasant Prairie

At 42.53° N, Pleasant Prairie gets about 15 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 03 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pleasant Prairie

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Kenosha, 4.2 miles away, with 99,578 people.