Hastings, Minnesota

Hastings population, 2020 to 2024

Hastings added 346 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +337. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 74th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Hastings is 1.6 times that size.

Hastings covers 10.35 square miles of land and 0.85 of water, for 2,174 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Hastings is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Hastings spans

Hastings crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 22,502 residents as follows; Dakota County holds 100.0% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hastings

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

The Census internal point of Hastings is at 44.731800, -92.854500. Saint Paul, the capital, is 19.6 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cottage Grove, MN (42,760 people), 6.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Paul, MN, 19.3 miles away.

Daylight in Hastings

At 44.73° N, Hastings gets about 15 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hastings

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Cottage Grove, 6.3 miles away, with 42,760 people.