Lake Elmo, Minnesota

Lake Elmo population, 2020 to 2024

Lake Elmo added 2,810 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +24.8%. In the latest year it moved by +386. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 5th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Lake Elmo is 99% of it.

Lake Elmo covers 22.10 square miles of land and 2.08 of water, for 641 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Lake Elmo is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lake Elmo is in

All of Lake Elmo's residents live in Washington County, which had 283,960 residents in 2024. Lake Elmo holds 5.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake Elmo

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lake Elmo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55042. 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 Elmo is

The Census internal point of Lake Elmo is at 44.987800, -92.909700. Saint Paul, the capital, is 9.7 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oakdale, MN (30,441 people), 2.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Paul, MN, 9.9 miles away.

Daylight in Lake Elmo

At 44.99° N, Lake Elmo gets about 15 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lake Elmo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Oakdale, 2.6 miles away, with 30,441 people.