Afton, Minnesota

Afton population, 2020 to 2024

Afton lost 4 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +7.

Afton covers 25.09 square miles of land and 1.39 of water, for 118 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Afton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Afton is in

All of Afton's residents live in Washington County, which had 283,960 residents in 2024. Afton holds 1.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Afton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Afton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55001. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Afton is

The Census internal point of Afton is at 44.898800, -92.819100. Saint Paul, the capital, is 14.4 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Woodbury, MN (80,596 people), 5.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Paul, MN, 14.4 miles away.

Daylight in Afton

At 44.90° N, Afton gets about 15 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Afton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Lake St. Croix Beach, 3.1 miles away, with 1,005 people.