Plover, Wisconsin

Plover population, 2020 to 2024

Plover added 647 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.8%. In the latest year it moved by +127. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 35th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Plover is 1.1 times that size.

Plover covers 10.64 square miles of land and 0.48 of water, for 1,335 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Plover is less dense than the typical town.

What county Plover is in

All of Plover's residents live in Portage County, which had 72,040 residents in 2024. Plover holds 19.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Plover

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Plover by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 54467. 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 Plover is

The Census internal point of Plover is at 44.462000, -89.538000. Madison, the capital, is 96.1 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Stevens Point, WI (26,465 people), 4.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Green Bay, WI, 76.6 miles away.

Daylight in Plover

At 44.46° N, Plover gets about 15 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 50 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Plover

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Whiting, 2.2 miles away, with 1,647 people.