Minnesota · Census place 2741462

Medicine Lake, Minnesota

Medicine Lake is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota with an estimated 1,343 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 314th largest of 357 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024: 1,343; #314 of 357 in Minnesota
Change since 2020: +298.5%; +1,006 people
Land area: 0.2 sq mi; + 0.20 sq mi water
Density: 7,900 / sq mi; State median 1,692

Orange pin: Medicine Lake. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Saint Paul.

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Medicine Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Medicine Lake added 1,006 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +298.5%. In the latest year it moved by +1,024.

July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 338. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Medicine Lake covers 0.17 square miles of land and 0.20 of water, for 7,900 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Medicine Lake is denser than the typical town.

What county Medicine Lake is in

All of Medicine Lake's residents live in Hennepin County, which had 1,273,334 residents in 2024. Medicine Lake holds 0.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Medicine Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Medicine Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55441. 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 Medicine Lake is

The Census internal point of Medicine Lake is at 44.995800, -93.418100. Saint Paul, the capital, is 15.7 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Plymouth, MN (78,551 people), 2.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 7.6 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal: 44.995800, -93.418100
DMS: 44°59'44.88"N 93°25'5.16"W
UTM: 15N 467044.9E 4982568.9N
Geohash: 9zvxfppp8
Plus code: 86P8XHWJ+8Q

Daylight in Medicine Lake

At 45.00° N, Medicine Lake 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 Medicine Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Plymouth, 2.9 miles away, with 78,551 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Medicine Lake, MN?

1,343 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 1,006 (298.5%) from 337 in July 2020.

What county is Medicine Lake in?

Hennepin County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Medicine Lake?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 55441.

How far is Medicine Lake from Saint Paul?

15.7 miles (25.3 km) in a straight line, heading E from Medicine Lake.

What is the nearest larger city to Medicine Lake?

Plymouth, MN, with 78,551 residents, 2.9 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.