Cottage Grove, Minnesota

Cottage Grove population, 2020 to 2024

Cottage Grove added 3,770 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +9.7%. In the latest year it moved by +652. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 15th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Cottage Grove is 3.0 times that size.

Cottage Grove covers 33.64 square miles of land and 3.89 of water, for 1,271 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Cottage Grove is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cottage Grove is in

All of Cottage Grove's residents live in Washington County, which had 283,960 residents in 2024. Cottage Grove holds 15.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cottage Grove

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Cottage Grove by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55016, 55033. 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 Cottage Grove is

The Census internal point of Cottage Grove is at 44.813300, -92.914300. Saint Paul, the capital, is 13.4 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Woodbury, MN (80,596 people), 6.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Paul, MN, 13.2 miles away.

Daylight in Cottage Grove

At 44.81° N, Cottage Grove 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 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cottage Grove

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is St. Paul Park, 4.2 miles away, with 5,381 people.