Atwater, Minnesota

Atwater population, 2020 to 2024

Atwater lost 22 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +1.

Atwater covers 1.03 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 1,066 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Atwater is less dense than the typical town.

What county Atwater is in

All of Atwater's residents live in Kandiyohi County, which had 44,674 residents in 2024. Atwater holds 2.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Atwater

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Atwater by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56209. 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 Atwater is

The Census internal point of Atwater is at 45.135500, -94.776900. Saint Paul, the capital, is 82.7 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Spicer, MN (1,099 people), 10.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 74.6 miles away.

Daylight in Atwater

At 45.14° N, Atwater gets about 15 h 38 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Atwater

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Spicer, 10.4 miles away, with 1,099 people.