Lake Crystal, Minnesota

Lake Crystal population, 2020 to 2024

Lake Crystal lost 56 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.2%. In the latest year it moved by -23.

Lake Crystal covers 1.71 square miles of land, for 1,453 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Lake Crystal is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lake Crystal is in

All of Lake Crystal's residents live in Blue Earth County, which had 70,700 residents in 2024. Lake Crystal holds 3.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake Crystal

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lake Crystal by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56055. 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 Crystal is

The Census internal point of Lake Crystal is at 44.105400, -94.219100. Saint Paul, the capital, is 80.5 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is North Mankato, MN (14,142 people), 10.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 75.6 miles away.

Daylight in Lake Crystal

At 44.11° N, Lake Crystal gets about 15 h 30 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 38 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lake Crystal

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is North Mankato, 10.3 miles away, with 14,142 people.