Sussex, Wisconsin

Sussex population, 2020 to 2024

Sussex added 975 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.4%. In the latest year it moved by +320. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 16th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Sussex is 1.0 times that size.

Sussex covers 8.45 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,492 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Sussex is close to the typical town.

What county Sussex is in

All of Sussex's residents live in Waukesha County, which had 417,029 residents in 2024. Sussex holds 3.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sussex

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sussex by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 53089. 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 Sussex is

The Census internal point of Sussex is at 43.134900, -88.226000. Madison, the capital, is 58.6 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pewaukee, WI (16,437 people), 4.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Milwaukee, WI, 14.0 miles away.

Daylight in Sussex

At 43.13° N, Sussex gets about 15 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 59 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sussex

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Lisbon, 2.0 miles away, with 11,127 people.