Photo: User:Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 2.5Living in Waunakee, WI: what to set up and who to call
Waunakee runs its own electric utility, Village of Waunakee; its homes paid 12.1¢ per kWh in 2025. Voting is local here: the Village of Waunakee Clerk registers voters and runs elections, not the county.
I’m new in town
What to set up in Waunakee, 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 Waunakee.
Power comes from Village of Waunakee
Village of Waunakee (Village of Waunakee - (WI)), a municipal utility, serves all of Waunakee. Its homes paid an average of 12.1¢ per kWh in 2025, about $88 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 Waunakee Waterworks
Waunakee Waterworks supplies Waunakee: about 89% of residents live in its service area. About 11% 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 14,879 people in all.
No health-based violations reported to EPA in the five years to October 2026, like 83% of the 3,525 systems serving 10,001–50,000 people.
The latest lead result on file, the 90th percentile of homes sampled in Jun–Sep 2023, was 1.7 ppb, below the 15 ppb action level that applied. That’s higher than 60% 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. WI1130265.
7 home internet providers serve Waunakee
100% of 4,786 addresses can get 100/20 Mbps; 96% can get fiber.
| Provider | Technology | Addresses | Fastest (Mbps) |
|---|---|---|---|
| TDS Telecom | Fiber, DSL | 99% | 1,000/1,000 |
| Spectrum | Cable, Fiber | 98% | 1,000/35 |
| Verizon | Fixed wireless | 97% | 300/20 |
| T-Mobile | Fixed wireless | 66% | 100/20 |
| LiteWire | Fixed wireless | 65% | 100/25 |
| AT&T | Fixed wireless | 50% | 25/3 |
FCC National Broadband Map, as of December 2025. Availability as providers report it, not speeds people get.
Trash day in Waunakee is any weekday, depending on your street
Pickup days, the drop-off and recycling in Waunakee, from the town’s own site and the hauler or county pages it links to.
Your pickup week
- TrashEvery week, on your street’s day (any weekday)
- RecyclingEvery week
- Bulky itemsCall to book
Highway Q Compost Site
5211 Highway Q, Middleton WI 53562
From waunakee.gov, the town’s official site; pellitteri.com, which waunakee.gov links to for trash, checked Oct 21, 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.
Waunakee is in Waunakee Community School District.
ASchool 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 May 2026; jurisdictions: EAC EAVS 2024. Registration rules and links: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Waunakee is in ZIP code 53597
ZIP codes where Waunakee residents live, with the share of the town in each.
| ZIP | Post office name | Share of Waunakee | ZIP’s residents in Waunakee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 53597 | Waunakee, WI | 100% | 72% |
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 Waunakee
Who supplies Waunakee’s drinking water, and has it had violations?
Waunakee Waterworks (EPA ID WI1130265). It reported no health-based violations to EPA in the five years to October 2026; 83% of systems its size had none. Its latest lead 90th percentile was 1.7 ppb (Jun–Sep 2023), against a 15 ppb action level.
Who provides electricity in Waunakee?
Village of Waunakee (Village of Waunakee - (WI)), a municipal utility. Its homes paid about 12.1¢ per kWh in 2025 (EIA).
What internet providers serve Waunakee?
TDS Telecom, Spectrum, Verizon, T-Mobile, LiteWire, AT&T (FCC, as of December 2025).
What ZIP codes are in Waunakee?
53597. Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas.
What school district is Waunakee in?
Waunakee Community School District.
How do I register to vote in Waunakee?
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 Village of Waunakee 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: Waunakee’s own website (waunakee.gov) and the hauler or county pages it links to (pellitteri.com), 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.