Monticello, Minnesota

Monticello population, 2020 to 2024

Monticello added 991 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.8%. In the latest year it moved by +591. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 29th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Monticello is 1.1 times that size.

Monticello covers 9.15 square miles of land and 0.34 of water, for 1,692 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Monticello is close to the typical town.

What county Monticello is in

All of Monticello's residents live in Wright County, which had 154,593 residents in 2024. Monticello holds 10.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Monticello

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Monticello by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55362. 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 Monticello is

The Census internal point of Monticello is at 45.294100, -93.786300. Saint Paul, the capital, is 40.8 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. Michael, MN (21,681 people), 8.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 34.1 miles away.

Daylight in Monticello

At 45.29° N, Monticello gets about 15 h 40 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 44 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Monticello

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Big Lake, 3.9 miles away, with 12,855 people.