Faribault, Minnesota

Faribault population, 2020 to 2024

Faribault added 529 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.2%. In the latest year it moved by +175. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 65th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Faribault is 1.8 times that size.

Faribault covers 15.71 square miles of land and 0.28 of water, for 1,590 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Faribault is close to the typical town.

What county Faribault is in

All of Faribault's residents live in Rice County, which had 69,025 residents in 2024. Faribault holds 36.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Faribault

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Faribault by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55021. 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 Faribault is

The Census internal point of Faribault is at 44.299700, -93.278900. Saint Paul, the capital, is 46.1 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Owatonna, MN (26,626 people), 14.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rochester, MN, 44.3 miles away.

Daylight in Faribault

At 44.30° N, Faribault gets about 15 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Faribault

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Medford, 9.2 miles away, with 1,362 people.