Baxter, Minnesota

Baxter population, 2020 to 2024

Baxter added 504 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.8%. In the latest year it moved by +49. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 38th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Baxter is 64% of it.

Baxter covers 18.85 square miles of land and 2.26 of water, for 487 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Baxter is less dense than the typical town.

What county Baxter is in

All of Baxter's residents live in Crow Wing County, which had 68,642 residents in 2024. Baxter holds 13.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Baxter

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Baxter by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56425. 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 Baxter is

The Census internal point of Baxter is at 46.343900, -94.276000. Saint Paul, the capital, is 111.5 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Brainerd, MN (14,400 people), 3.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 107.1 miles away.

Daylight in Baxter

At 46.34° N, Baxter gets about 15 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 36 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Baxter

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Brainerd, 3.8 miles away, with 14,400 people.