Northfield, Minnesota

Northfield population, 2020 to 2024

Northfield added 496 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.4%. In the latest year it moved by +140. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 63rd; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Northfield is 1.5 times that size.

Northfield covers 8.54 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 2,496 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Northfield is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Northfield spans

Northfield crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 21,316 residents as follows; Rice County holds 94.1% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Northfield

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Northfield by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55057. 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 Northfield is

The Census internal point of Northfield is at 44.455600, -93.170300. Saint Paul, the capital, is 34.7 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Faribault, MN (24,983 people), 12.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Paul, MN, 34.2 miles away.

Daylight in Northfield

At 44.46° N, Northfield gets about 15 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 50 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Northfield

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Dundas, 2.5 miles away, with 1,806 people.