Trempealeau County area

Population and density of Trempealeau County

The Census Bureau estimates that 31,171 people lived in Trempealeau County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,450 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #43 of 72 in Wisconsin. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 30,770, the population has grown by 401 (+1.3%), compared with +1.3% for Wisconsin as a whole.

With 733 square miles of land, that is 43 people per square mile (16 per km²), placing Trempealeau County #1,699 nationally for density and #40 in Wisconsin. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Wisconsin median is 51. Put another way, there are about 15 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 Trempealeau County

Trempealeau County is divided into 26 cities and towns. In Wisconsin, county subdivisions are local governments, and together they cover all of the county’s land and residents.

The most populous is Arcadia city, with 3,840 residents (12.3% of the county). The largest by land is Arcadia town, at 115.9 mi², or 15.8% of the county’s land. The county seat, Whitehall city, has 1,621 residents. Among those with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Trempealeau town grew fastest since then (+3%).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each subdivision inside Trempealeau County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Trempealeau County is not part of any metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area in the Office of Management and Budget’s July 2023 delineation; 1,306 other county equivalents are also outside one. These areas are built around an urban core of at least 10,000 people plus the counties tied to it by commuting, so counties outside them are generally rural.

ZIP codes

14 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Trempealeau County; 11 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

5461254616546255462754630546425465954661547385474754758547605477054773

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 Trempealeau County

Trempealeau County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents, including 1 in Minnesota. It has more land than 4 of them. The largest neighbor is Jackson County (987.9 mi²) and the smallest is La Crosse County (451.8 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Trempealeau County forms a block of 4,112.6 mi² of land, of which it holds 17.8%.

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

Trempealeau County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.4 times as much. Wisconsin’s county land could hold about 74 areas the size of Trempealeau County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 27.1 miles (43.6 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 Trempealeau County?

Trempealeau County has more land than 2,014 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 Trempealeau County at #1,296 nationally by total area, 88 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 1.2%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2%. The two percentages are within 0.1 percentage points of each other. 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 Trempealeau 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.