Menominee County area

Population and density of Menominee County

The Census Bureau estimates that 4,199 people lived in Menominee County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,949 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #72 of 72 in Wisconsin. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 4,250, the population has declined by 51 (−1.2%), compared with +1.3% for Wisconsin as a whole.

With 357.6 square miles of land, that is 12 people per square mile (4.5 per km²), placing Menominee County #2,583 nationally for density and #67 in Wisconsin. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Wisconsin median is 51. Put another way, there are about 55 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Menominee County

Menominee County is divided into 1 county subdivision. In Wisconsin, county subdivisions are local governments, and together they cover all of the county’s land and residents.

The most populous is Menominee town, with 4,199 residents (100% of the county), and it is also the largest by land at 357.6 mi².

Metropolitan area

Menominee County is an outlying county of the Shawano, WI Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 45,759 residents on 1,250.8 square miles of land; Menominee County accounts for 28.6% of the land and 9.2% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #137 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #263 by population. It belongs to the Green Bay-Shawano, WI Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Menominee County; 2 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

54124541355415054174

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Menominee County

Menominee County shares a land border with 3 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Menominee County. The largest neighbor is Oconto County (997.5 mi²) and the smallest is Langlade County (870.7 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Menominee County forms a block of 3,119 mi² of land, of which it holds 11.5%.

How big is Menominee County compared with U.S. states?

Menominee County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.9 times as much. Wisconsin’s county land could hold about 151 areas the size of Menominee County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 18.9 miles (30.4 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Menominee County?

Menominee County has more land than 558 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Menominee County at #2,695 nationally by total area, 31 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 2%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.8 percentage points higher. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Menominee County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.