Wausau, Wisconsin

Wausau population, 2020 to 2024

Wausau added 220 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +114. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 86th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Wausau is 3.2 times that size.

Wausau covers 19.23 square miles of land and 1.11 of water, for 2,094 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Wausau is denser than the typical town.

What county Wausau is in

All of Wausau's residents live in Marathon County, which had 139,091 residents in 2024. Wausau holds 28.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wausau

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Wausau by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 54401, 54403. 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 Wausau is

The Census internal point of Wausau is at 44.961800, -89.646500. Madison, the capital, is 131.0 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Appleton, WI (75,344 people), 77.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Green Bay, WI, 86.9 miles away.

Daylight in Wausau

At 44.96° N, Wausau gets about 15 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wausau

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Schofield, 3.6 miles away, with 2,291 people.