Granite Falls, Minnesota

Granite Falls population, 2020 to 2024

Granite Falls lost 57 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.1%. In the latest year it moved by -18.

Granite Falls covers 3.55 square miles of land and 0.24 of water, for 754 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Granite Falls is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Granite Falls spans

Granite Falls crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 2,678 residents as follows; Yellow Medicine County holds 65.8% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Granite Falls

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Granite Falls by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56241. 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 Granite Falls is

The Census internal point of Granite Falls is at 44.807300, -95.542300. Saint Paul, the capital, is 119.9 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Montevideo, MN (5,300 people), 13.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sioux Falls, SD, 105.5 miles away.

Daylight in Granite Falls

At 44.81° N, Granite Falls 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 Granite Falls

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Montevideo, 13.0 miles away, with 5,300 people.