Lake City, Minnesota

Lake City population, 2020 to 2024

Lake City added 55 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.0%. In the latest year it moved by -11. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 81st; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Lake City is 37% of it.

Lake City covers 4.49 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,182 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Lake City is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Lake City spans

Lake City crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 5,306 residents as follows; Wabasha County holds 83.0% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lake City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55041. 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 Lake City is

The Census internal point of Lake City is at 44.445700, -92.280900. Saint Paul, the capital, is 53.5 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Red Wing, MN (16,788 people), 18.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rochester, MN, 31.4 miles away.

Daylight in Lake City

At 44.45° N, Lake City gets about 15 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 50 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lake City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Wabasha, 12.7 miles away, with 2,598 people.