Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin

Prairie du Chien population, 2020 to 2024

Prairie du Chien lost 54 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.0%. In the latest year it moved by -17. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 132nd; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Prairie du Chien is 44% of it.

Prairie du Chien covers 5.90 square miles of land and 0.63 of water, for 927 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Prairie du Chien is less dense than the typical town.

What county Prairie du Chien is in

All of Prairie du Chien's residents live in Crawford County, which had 16,008 residents in 2024. Prairie du Chien holds 34.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Prairie du Chien

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Prairie du Chien by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 53821. 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 Prairie du Chien is

The Census internal point of Prairie du Chien is at 43.041600, -91.135400. Madison, the capital, is 88.4 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Decorah, IA (7,454 people), 37.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cedar Rapids, IA, 79.4 miles away.

Daylight in Prairie du Chien

At 43.04° N, Prairie du Chien gets about 15 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Prairie du Chien

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Boscobel, 22.9 miles away, with 3,265 people.