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55099 County FIPS Code

Price County

Wisconsin · County seat: Phillips · Active county or equivalent

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FIPS code 55099 is Price County, Wisconsin. With a population of 14,066 (2022 ACS estimate), it ranks #66 in Wisconsin and #2211 nationally. The state FIPS code for Wisconsin is 55. This code is used in Census Bureau, BLS, EPA, HUD, and USDA federal datasets to identify this county.

County FIPS

55099

State FIPS

55

WI

Population

14,066

2022 ACS · #2211 nationally

Density

11.2/mi²

people per sq mile

Land Area

1,254

sq miles

Urban/Rural

Nonmetro — completely rural

RUCC 9

How This FIPS Code Works

55 099
55 = State FIPS (Wisconsin)
099 = County FIPS

The 5-digit FIPS code 55099 is formed by combining the 2-digit state identifier 55 (Wisconsin) with the 3-digit county identifier 099. Together they uniquely identify Price County in every US federal dataset. No two counties share the same 5-digit FIPS code.

Census ACS Data for FIPS 55099

From the 2022 ACS 5-year estimates — the same values you'd retrieve by querying the Census API with county FIPS 55099.

Median Household Income

$55,822

ACS B19013_001E

Poverty Rate

13.6%

ACS B17001 (below poverty level)

Median Age

52.1

ACS B01002_001E

Adjacent Counties (8)

Counties that share a border with Price County. Useful for regional analysis — these are the geographies you'd typically include when studying labor markets, commuting zones, or environmental spillovers around FIPS 55099.

Federal Datasets Using Code 55099

FIPS code 55099 appears as the county identifier in the following federal datasets. Analysts joining data across these sources use this code as the common geographic key.

Using FIPS Code 55099 in Code

Common patterns for querying federal datasets by this county's FIPS code. The leading zeros are significant — always treat FIPS codes as strings, not integers.

Census ACS API — Python 55099
import requests

url = "https://api.census.gov/data/2022/acs/acs5"
params = {
    "get":  "NAME,B19013_001E,B01003_001E",
    "for":  "county:099",
    "in":   "state:55",
    "key":  "YOUR_CENSUS_API_KEY",
}
r = requests.get(url, params=params)
data = r.json()  # [[header...], [Price County, Wisconsin, income, pop, ...]
SQL — filtering by county FIPS 55099
-- 5-digit combined FIPS (state + county)
SELECT * FROM your_table WHERE county_fips = '55099';

-- Some datasets store state and county separately
SELECT * FROM your_table
WHERE state_fips = '55'
  AND county_fips = '099';

-- ⚠ Never cast to integer — leading zeros are lost:
-- county_fips = 55099 is WRONG for this county
R — tidycensus 55099
library(tidycensus)

get_acs(
  geography = "county",
  variables = c(income = "B19013_001E", pop = "B01003_001E"),
  state     = "55",
  county    = "099",
  year      = 2022
)
Zero-padding reminder: FIPS codes must always be stored and compared as zero-padded strings. 55 (not 55) and 099 (not 99) — losing the leading zeros is one of the most common data-join bugs in federal datasets. Full guide →

ZIP Codes in Price County

ZIP codes do not align perfectly with county boundaries — a single ZIP code can span multiple counties, and a county can contain parts of many ZIP codes. The ratios below (from the Census 2020 ZCTA relationship file) show the land area share of each ZCTA that falls within Price County. Why FIPS ≠ ZIP →

ZIP Code % in county
54524 100.0%
54556 100.0%
54555 100.0%
54513 100.0%
54537 100.0%
54515 100.0%
54459 98.6%
54552 71.5%
54530 24.3%
54514 12.7%
54470 2.4%
54564 1.4%
54538 0.9%
54490 0.5%

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