Waunakee, Wisconsin

Waunakee population, 2020 to 2024

Waunakee added 1,445 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +9.7%. In the latest year it moved by +236. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 12th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Waunakee is 1.3 times that size.

Waunakee covers 7.40 square miles of land, for 2,211 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Waunakee is denser than the typical town.

What county Waunakee is in

All of Waunakee's residents live in Dane County, which had 588,347 residents in 2024. Waunakee holds 2.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Waunakee

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Waunakee by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 53597. 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 Waunakee is

The Census internal point of Waunakee is at 43.182900, -89.445300. Madison, the capital, is 8.1 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Middleton, WI (22,566 people), 6.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Madison, WI, 6.6 miles away.

Daylight in Waunakee

At 43.18° N, Waunakee 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 Waunakee

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Dane, 5.2 miles away, with 1,111 people.