Montevideo, Minnesota

Montevideo population, 2020 to 2024

Montevideo lost 121 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.2%. In the latest year it moved by +8. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 133rd; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Montevideo is 37% of it.

Montevideo covers 4.71 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,125 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Montevideo is less dense than the typical town.

What county Montevideo is in

All of Montevideo's residents live in Chippewa County, which had 12,299 residents in 2024. Montevideo holds 43.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Montevideo

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Montevideo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56265. 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 Montevideo is

The Census internal point of Montevideo is at 44.950200, -95.715400. Saint Paul, the capital, is 127.8 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Willmar, MN (21,892 people), 34.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sioux Falls, SD, 109.6 miles away.

Daylight in Montevideo

At 44.95° N, Montevideo 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 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Montevideo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Granite Falls, 13.0 miles away, with 2,678 people.