#1Wrightstown
Brown County3,189 in 2020·4,169 in 2025·+980 people
Wrightstown, #1 on this list · Mueller-Wright House · Photo: Jeff the quiet · CC0Wisconsin rankings · Growth
Fastest-growing towns in Wisconsin
Wrightstown has grown fastest of Wisconsin’s 358 towns of 2,500+: up 30.7% from 3,189 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 4,169 in July 2025 (Census Bureau estimates). The typical town here changed +0.7%; 135 of the 358 lost residents.
Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025: July 1, 2025 against the April 2020 base, both on January 2025 town lines (people a town annexed are in its base, not its growth). Estimates, not counts. Unincorporated communities (census-designated places) get no estimate, so they aren’t listed. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#1+30.7%
#2Cottage Grove
Dane County7,297 in 2020·8,930 in 2025·+1,633 people
#3Clayton
Winnebago County4,336 in 2020·5,303 in 2025·+967 people
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What is the fastest-growing town in Wisconsin?
Wrightstown (Brown County): it grew 30.7%, from 3,189 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 4,169 in July 2025. Cottage Grove (+22.4%) and Clayton (+22.3%) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the percent change in residents from the Census Bureau’s April 2020 estimates base to its latest July 1 estimate, highest first, on the exact change: two towns shown with the same tenth of a percent keep the order of their unrounded figures, and only an identical change shares a rank (T). The base is the 2020 Census count redrawn on today’s town lines, so a town that annexed land since 2020 changes only by births, deaths and moves, not by the people it took in. How grades work.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers the towns TownRatings grades that had 2,500+ residents in the 2020 estimates base (358 in Wisconsin). Census-designated places (unincorporated communities) have no Census Bureau estimates, so they never appear; a town incorporated since 2020, or one TownRatings merges with its twin township, isn’t listed either. Every town is on the Wisconsin page.
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