Photo: Greg Tally - User: (WT-shared) WineCountryInn at wts wikivoyage · CC BY-SA 3.0Living in Sturgeon Bay, WI: what to set up and who to call
Sturgeon Bay runs its own electric utility, City of Sturgeon Bay; its homes paid 12.8¢ per kWh in 2025. Sturgeon Bay has its own drop-off, Door County Recycling Center.
I’m new in town
What to set up in Sturgeon Bay, and who provides it. Tap an answer for the details and where they come from.
Power, water and internet
Who to call to start service at a new address in Sturgeon Bay.
Power comes from City of Sturgeon Bay
City of Sturgeon Bay (City of Sturgeon Bay - (WI)), a municipal utility, serves 91.9% of Sturgeon Bay residents. Its homes paid an average of 12.8¢ per kWh in 2025, about $76 a month (its average across Wisconsin).
Service territory: HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (map dated Aug 2023). Prices and customers: EIA-861, 2025.
Water comes from Sturgeon Bay Waterworks
Sturgeon Bay Waterworks supplies Sturgeon Bay: about 63% of residents live in its service area. About 37% of homes are outside any mapped community water system, most likely on private wells, which EPA doesn’t regulate. It draws ground water and serves 9,700 people in all.
No health-based violations reported to EPA in the five years to October 2026, like 80% of the 5,012 systems serving 3,301–10,000 people.
The latest lead result on file, the 90th percentile of homes sampled in Jun–Sep 2023, was 3.6 ppb, below the 15 ppb action level that applied. That’s higher than 86% of similar systems’ latest results.
The system’s full record: EPA ECHO report
EPA SDWIS via Envirofacts (violations pulled Oct 9, 2026) and ECHO (lead samples, 2026Q3); service area: EPA Community Water System Service Area Boundaries v3.0 (EPA’s estimate). Violations are counted by the start of their compliance period. WI4150526.
5 home internet providers serve Sturgeon Bay
97% of 4,213 addresses can get 100/20 Mbps; 5% can get fiber.
| Provider | Technology | Addresses | Fastest (Mbps) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spectrum | Cable, Fiber | 95% | 1,000/35 |
| AT&T | Fixed wireless, DSL, Fiber | 85% | 100/20 |
| Nsight Telservices | Fixed wireless | 92% | 100/10 |
| T-Mobile | Fixed wireless | 26% | 100/20 |
| Bertram Communications | Fixed wireless | 15% | 100/20 |
FCC National Broadband Map, as of December 2025. Availability as providers report it, not speeds people get.
Trash day in Sturgeon Bay is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, depending on your street
Pickup days, the drop-off and recycling in Sturgeon Bay, from the town’s own site.
Your pickup week
- TrashEvery week, on your street’s day (Mon, Tue, Wed or Thu)Find your street’s day on cms9files.revize.com →
- RecyclingEvery other week, same day as trash
- Trash
- Recycling
- Trash
- No recycling
When a holiday falls on a weekday, pickup slides one day later for the rest of that week.
GFL Environmental waste and recycling facility (private facility; city compost site at 1531 Division Road)
1509 Division Road, Sturgeon Bay, WI
We couldn’t find its opening hours.
Single-stream recycling
All your recyclables go in one bin, no sorting.
- Cardboard beverage packs (soda/beer)
- Books (hard covers removed)
- Brown paper grocery bags
- Cardboard tubes
- Cereal & cracker boxes
- Corrugated cardboard
- Egg cartons (paper type only)
- Frozen food boxes
- Gift wrap rolls & paper towel rolls
- Glass (food and beverage) clear, blue, brown & green
- Hanging file folders (remove metal hangers)
- Home office paper
- Ice cream containers
- Junk mail & envelopes
GFL Environmental
1509 Division Road
From cms9files.revize.com, sturgeonbaywi.org, the town’s official site, checked Oct 21, 2026; pages dated 2026. Rules change: the town’s page is the last word. .
Where your child goes to school
Public school districts and the school path by grade.
Most of Sturgeon Bay (81%) is in Sturgeon Bay School District; parts are in Southern Door County School District (17%) and Sevastopol School District (2%).
B+School gradeSee Schools →U.S. Department of Education, NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25. Enrollment rules and registration are the district’s.
Town hall and registering to vote
Who to call, and how to register.
Election office: FVAP local election office directory, updated Jun 2025; jurisdictions: EAC EAVS 2024. Registration rules and links: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Sturgeon Bay is in ZIP code 54235
ZIP codes where Sturgeon Bay residents live, with the share of the town in each.
| ZIP | Post office name | Share of Sturgeon Bay | ZIP’s residents in Sturgeon Bay |
|---|---|---|---|
| 54235 | Sturgeon Bay, WI | 100% | 54% |
Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, by census block; post office names: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). ZIPs created since 2020 are missing.
Getting around, the ER and the library
One line each; the subject pages have the rest.
ER: CMS hospital data. Library: IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FY2024.
Questions about living in Sturgeon Bay
Who supplies Sturgeon Bay’s drinking water, and has it had violations?
Sturgeon Bay Waterworks (EPA ID WI4150526). It reported no health-based violations to EPA in the five years to October 2026; 80% of systems its size had none. Its latest lead 90th percentile was 3.6 ppb (Jun–Sep 2023), against a 15 ppb action level.
Who provides electricity in Sturgeon Bay?
City of Sturgeon Bay (City of Sturgeon Bay - (WI)), a municipal utility. Its homes paid about 12.8¢ per kWh in 2025 (EIA).
What internet providers serve Sturgeon Bay?
Spectrum, AT&T, Nsight Telservices, T-Mobile, Bertram Communications (FCC, as of December 2025).
What ZIP codes are in Sturgeon Bay?
54235. Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas.
What school district is Sturgeon Bay in?
Sturgeon Bay School District. Parts of the city are in Southern Door County School District and Sevastopol School District.
How do I register to vote in Sturgeon Bay?
In Wisconsin you can register online until 20 days before Election Day, in person up to and including Election Day, or by mail (postmarked 20 days before). Elections here are run by the City of Sturgeon Bay Clerk. Check your registration at myvote.wi.gov.
Sources & dates
Every answer above names its source. Here they are with their dates.
- Water: EPA SDWIS (Envirofacts, pulled Oct 9, 2026), ECHO SDWA 2026Q3, EPA CWS Service Area Boundaries v3.0.
- Power: HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (map Aug 2023); EIA-861 final 2025.
- Trash: Sturgeon Bay’s own website (cms9files.revize.com, sturgeonbaywi.org), read Oct 21, 2026, pickup and drop-off facts extracted and checked against the page they came from.
- ZIP codes: Census 2020 ZCTA relationship files; GeoNames postal codes (CC BY 4.0).
- Schools: NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25.
- Registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024 (read Oct 10, 2026). Official sites and area codes: Wikidata.
- Election office: FVAP local election office directory (fetched Oct 10, 2026; each record dated), EAC EAVS 2024 jurisdictions; registration and lookup links from vote.gov’s state data, checked Oct 10, 2026.
- Internet: FCC National Broadband Map, as of December 2025.