Lonsdale, Minnesota

Lonsdale population, 2020 to 2024

Lonsdale added 355 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.5%. In the latest year it moved by +89. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 27th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Lonsdale is 36% of it.

Lonsdale covers 2.61 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,941 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Lonsdale is denser than the typical town.

What county Lonsdale is in

All of Lonsdale's residents live in Rice County, which had 69,025 residents in 2024. Lonsdale holds 7.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lonsdale

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lonsdale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55046. 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 Lonsdale is

The Census internal point of Lonsdale is at 44.477600, -93.424200. Saint Paul, the capital, is 36.6 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Elko New Market, MN (5,193 people), 7.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 34.4 miles away.

Daylight in Lonsdale

At 44.48° N, Lonsdale 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 Lonsdale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Elko New Market, 7.6 miles away, with 5,193 people.