Howard Lake, Minnesota

Howard Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Howard Lake added 159 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.6%. In the latest year it moved by +54.

Howard Lake covers 1.85 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 1,215 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Howard Lake is less dense than the typical town.

What county Howard Lake is in

All of Howard Lake's residents live in Wright County, which had 154,593 residents in 2024. Howard Lake holds 1.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Howard Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Howard Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55349. 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 Howard Lake is

The Census internal point of Howard Lake is at 45.054000, -94.061000. Saint Paul, the capital, is 47.3 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cokato, MN (2,782 people), 6.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 39.2 miles away.

Daylight in Howard Lake

At 45.05° N, Howard Lake gets about 15 h 38 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Howard Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Waverly, 4.7 miles away, with 2,241 people.