Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

Wauwatosa population, 2020 to 2024

Wauwatosa added 461 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.0%. In the latest year it moved by -45. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 75th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Wauwatosa is 3.9 times that size.

Wauwatosa covers 13.23 square miles of land, for 3,688 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Wauwatosa is denser than the typical town.

What county Wauwatosa is in

All of Wauwatosa's residents live in Milwaukee County, which had 924,740 residents in 2024. Wauwatosa holds 5.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wauwatosa

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Wauwatosa by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 53213, 53222, 53225, 53226. 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 Wauwatosa is

The Census internal point of Wauwatosa is at 43.063200, -88.035600. Madison, the capital, is 68.1 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Milwaukee, WI (563,531 people), 3.5 miles away.

Daylight in Wauwatosa

At 43.06° N, Wauwatosa 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 Wauwatosa

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Elm Grove, 2.8 miles away, with 6,416 people.