Austin, Minnesota

Austin population, 2020 to 2024

Austin added 480 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.8%. In the latest year it moved by +324. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 69th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Austin is 1.9 times that size.

Austin covers 13.47 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 1,981 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Austin is denser than the typical town.

What county Austin is in

All of Austin's residents live in Mower County, which had 40,900 residents in 2024. Austin holds 65.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Austin

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Austin by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55912. 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 Austin is

The Census internal point of Austin is at 43.672100, -92.977900. Saint Paul, the capital, is 88.9 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rochester, MN (123,624 people), 34.3 miles away.

Daylight in Austin

At 43.67° N, Austin gets about 15 h 27 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Austin

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Blooming Prairie, 14.1 miles away, with 1,938 people.