Waterford, Wisconsin

Waterford population, 2020 to 2024

Waterford added 316 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.7%. In the latest year it moved by +141. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 28th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Waterford is 47% of it.

Waterford covers 2.55 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 2,308 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Waterford is denser than the typical town.

What county Waterford is in

All of Waterford's residents live in Racine County, which had 198,651 residents in 2024. Waterford 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 Waterford

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Waterford by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 53185. 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 Waterford is

The Census internal point of Waterford is at 42.766000, -88.216800. Madison, the capital, is 62.8 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Burlington, WI (10,939 people), 6.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Milwaukee, WI, 24.1 miles away.

Daylight in Waterford

At 42.77° N, Waterford gets about 15 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Waterford

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Rochester, 2.8 miles away, with 3,766 people.