Rice Lake, Wisconsin

Rice Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Rice Lake lost 91 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.0%. In the latest year it moved by -49. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 133rd; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Rice Lake is 72% of it.

Rice Lake covers 8.98 square miles of land and 1.11 of water, for 999 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Rice Lake is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rice Lake is in

All of Rice Lake's residents live in Barron County, which had 46,810 residents in 2024. Rice Lake holds 19.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rice Lake

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Rice Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 54822, 54868. 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 Rice Lake is

The Census internal point of Rice Lake is at 45.482000, -91.745800. Madison, the capital, is 203.2 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Chippewa Falls, WI (15,075 people), 41.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Paul, MN, 75.7 miles away.

Daylight in Rice Lake

At 45.48° N, Rice Lake gets about 15 h 41 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rice Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Cameron, 5.4 miles away, with 1,851 people.