Aitkin, Minnesota

Aitkin population, 2020 to 2024

Aitkin added 4 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +7.

Aitkin covers 2.96 square miles of land, for 734 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Aitkin is less dense than the typical town.

What county Aitkin is in

All of Aitkin's residents live in Aitkin County, which had 16,335 residents in 2024. Aitkin holds 13.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Aitkin

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Aitkin by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56431. 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 Aitkin is

The Census internal point of Aitkin is at 46.526600, -93.705000. Saint Paul, the capital, is 112.4 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Crosby, MN (2,328 people), 11.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 110.0 miles away.

Daylight in Aitkin

At 46.53° N, Aitkin gets about 15 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 34 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Aitkin

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Crosby, 11.7 miles away, with 2,328 people.