Ham Lake, Minnesota

Ham Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Ham Lake added 400 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.4%. In the latest year it moved by +148. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 61st; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Ham Lake is 1.2 times that size.

Ham Lake covers 34.42 square miles of land and 1.45 of water, for 491 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Ham Lake is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ham Lake is in

All of Ham Lake's residents live in Anoka County, which had 376,840 residents in 2024. Ham Lake holds 4.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ham Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ham Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55304. 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 Ham Lake is

The Census internal point of Ham Lake is at 45.253900, -93.194800. Saint Paul, the capital, is 21.1 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Blaine, MN (75,172 people), 5.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 20.4 miles away.

Daylight in Ham Lake

At 45.25° N, Ham Lake gets about 15 h 39 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 44 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ham Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Columbus, 4.2 miles away, with 4,307 people.