Fairmont, Minnesota

Fairmont population, 2020 to 2024

Fairmont lost 268 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.6%. In the latest year it moved by -95. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 135th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Fairmont is 71% of it.

Fairmont covers 15.00 square miles of land and 1.89 of water, for 678 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Fairmont is less dense than the typical town.

What county Fairmont is in

All of Fairmont's residents live in Martin County, which had 19,561 residents in 2024. Fairmont holds 52.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fairmont

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fairmont by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56031. 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 Fairmont is

The Census internal point of Fairmont is at 43.644800, -94.464000. Saint Paul, the capital, is 112.8 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is North Mankato, MN (14,142 people), 42.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rochester, MN, 102.2 miles away.

Daylight in Fairmont

At 43.64° N, Fairmont 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 Fairmont

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Truman, 12.7 miles away, with 1,069 people.