Waukesha village, Wisconsin

Waukesha population, 2020 to 2024

Waukesha added 107 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +43. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 69th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Waukesha is 68% of it.

Waukesha covers 20.58 square miles of land and 0.26 of water, for 417 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Waukesha is less dense 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 2.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Waukesha

No ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps Waukesha by at least 10% of either area. 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 Waukesha is

The Census internal point of Waukesha is at 42.960400, -88.249300. Madison, the capital, is 57.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Waukesha, WI (71,461 people), 3.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Milwaukee, WI, 16.0 miles away.

Daylight in Waukesha

At 42.96° N, Waukesha gets about 15 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 21 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 71,461 people.