Minnesota · Census place 2743810

Montrose, Minnesota

Montrose is a city in Wright County, Minnesota with an estimated 3,925 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 184th largest of 357 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
3,925
#184 of 357 in Minnesota
Change since 2020
+3.5%
+131 people
Land area
3.1 sq mi
Density
1,274 / sq mi
State median 1,692
Orange pin: Montrose. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Saint Paul.

Montrose population, 2020 to 2024

Montrose added 131 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.5%. In the latest year it moved by +8.

3,79420203,84920213,92520223,91720233,9252024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 3,778. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Montrose covers 3.08 square miles of land, for 1,274 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Montrose is less dense than the typical town.

What county Montrose is in

All of Montrose's residents live in Wright County, which had 154,593 residents in 2024. Montrose holds 2.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Montrose

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Montrose by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55363. 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 Montrose is

The Census internal point of Montrose is at 45.066500, -93.920300. Saint Paul, the capital, is 40.7 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Delano, MN (7,513 people), 6.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 32.6 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
45.066500, -93.920300
DMS
45°03'59.40"N 93°55'13.08"W
UTM
15N 427550.2E 4990749.7N
Geohash
cbj0qu176
Plus code
86Q8338H+JV

Daylight in Montrose

At 45.07° N, Montrose gets about 15 h 38 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Montrose

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Waverly, 2.3 miles away, with 2,241 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Montrose, MN?

3,925 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 131 (3.5%) from 3,794 in July 2020.

What county is Montrose in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Montrose?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 55363.

How far is Montrose from Saint Paul?

40.7 miles (65.5 km) in a straight line, heading E from Montrose.

What is the nearest larger city to Montrose?

Delano, MN, with 7,513 residents, 6.5 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.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

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