Whitewater, Wisconsin

Whitewater population, 2020 to 2024

Whitewater lost 56 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +219. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 111th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Whitewater is 1.3 times that size.

Whitewater covers 8.84 square miles of land and 0.30 of water, for 1,819 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Whitewater is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Whitewater spans

Whitewater crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 16,076 residents as follows; Walworth County holds 72.1% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Whitewater

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Whitewater by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 53190. 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 Whitewater is

The Census internal point of Whitewater is at 42.837400, -88.734300. Madison, the capital, is 36.7 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Janesville, WI (66,428 people), 17.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Madison, WI, 39.2 miles away.

Daylight in Whitewater

At 42.84° N, Whitewater gets about 15 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Whitewater

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Palmyra, 7.5 miles away, with 1,719 people.