Rice Lake, Minnesota

Rice Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Rice Lake added 66 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +3.

Rice Lake covers 32.73 square miles of land and 1.04 of water, for 127 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Rice Lake is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rice Lake is in

All of Rice Lake's residents live in St. Louis County, which had 200,794 residents in 2024. Rice Lake holds 2.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rice Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rice Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55803. 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 Rice Lake is

The Census internal point of Rice Lake is at 46.908900, -92.132200. Saint Paul, the capital, is 142.8 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hermantown, MN (10,265 people), 8.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Paul, MN, 143.2 miles away.

Daylight in Rice Lake

At 46.91° N, Rice Lake gets about 15 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 31 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rice Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Hermantown, 9.0 miles away, with 10,265 people.