Waukesha city, Wisconsin

Waukesha population, 2020 to 2024

Waukesha added 323 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +112. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 88th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Waukesha is 5.7 times that size.

Waukesha covers 25.52 square miles of land and 0.27 of water, for 2,800 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Waukesha is denser than the typical town.

What county Waukesha is in

All of Waukesha's residents live in Waukesha County, which had 417,029 residents in 2024. Waukesha holds 17.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Waukesha

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Waukesha by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 53186, 53188, 53189. 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 Waukesha is

The Census internal point of Waukesha is at 43.009100, -88.245100. Madison, the capital, is 57.7 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Milwaukee, WI (563,531 people), 14.5 miles away.

Daylight in Waukesha

At 43.01° N, Waukesha 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 Waukesha

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Waukesha, 3.4 miles away, with 8,573 people.