Madelia, Minnesota

Madelia population, 2020 to 2024

Madelia added 33 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.4%. In the latest year it moved by +33.

Madelia covers 1.51 square miles of land, for 1,609 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Madelia is close to the typical town.

What county Madelia is in

All of Madelia's residents live in Watonwan County, which had 11,204 residents in 2024. Madelia holds 21.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Madelia

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Madelia by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56062. 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 Madelia is

The Census internal point of Madelia is at 44.048200, -94.419900. Saint Paul, the capital, is 90.2 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lake Crystal, MN (2,485 people), 10.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 84.9 miles away.

Daylight in Madelia

At 44.05° N, Madelia gets about 15 h 30 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 53 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Madelia

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Lake Crystal, 10.7 miles away, with 2,485 people.