Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Sturgeon Bay population, 2020 to 2024

Sturgeon Bay added 269 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.8%. In the latest year it moved by -9. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 47th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Sturgeon Bay is 79% of it.

Sturgeon Bay covers 9.89 square miles of land and 1.66 of water, for 1,005 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Sturgeon Bay is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sturgeon Bay is in

All of Sturgeon Bay's residents live in Door County, which had 30,512 residents in 2024. Sturgeon Bay holds 32.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sturgeon Bay

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sturgeon Bay by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 54235. 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 Sturgeon Bay is

The Census internal point of Sturgeon Bay is at 44.822700, -87.369800. Madison, the capital, is 156.9 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Marinette, WI (11,139 people), 22.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Green Bay, WI, 36.8 miles away.

Daylight in Sturgeon Bay

At 44.82° N, Sturgeon Bay gets about 15 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sturgeon Bay

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Algoma, 15.5 miles away, with 3,226 people.