Oakdale, Minnesota

Oakdale population, 2020 to 2024

Oakdale added 2,171 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.7%. In the latest year it moved by +2,165. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 25th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Oakdale is 2.1 times that size.

Oakdale covers 10.96 square miles of land and 0.35 of water, for 2,777 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Oakdale is denser than the typical town.

What county Oakdale is in

All of Oakdale's residents live in Washington County, which had 283,960 residents in 2024. Oakdale holds 10.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Oakdale

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Oakdale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55128. 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 Oakdale is

The Census internal point of Oakdale is at 44.987500, -92.963600. Saint Paul, the capital, is 7.1 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Maplewood, MN (40,142 people), 4.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Paul, MN, 7.4 miles away.

Daylight in Oakdale

At 44.99° N, Oakdale 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 Oakdale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is North St. Paul, 2.6 miles away, with 12,644 people.