Rochester, Minnesota

Rochester population, 2020 to 2024

Rochester added 2,049 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.7%. In the latest year it moved by +966. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 71st; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Rochester is 8.7 times that size.

Rochester covers 56.67 square miles of land and 0.34 of water, for 2,181 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Rochester is denser than the typical town.

What county Rochester is in

All of Rochester's residents live in Olmsted County, which had 166,424 residents in 2024. Rochester holds 74.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rochester

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Rochester by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55901, 55902, 55903, 55904, 55905, 55906. 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 Rochester is

The Census internal point of Rochester is at 44.014300, -92.478600. Saint Paul, the capital, is 71.9 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. Paul, MN (307,465 people), 71.6 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 343 m (1,125 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Rochester

At 44.01° N, Rochester gets about 15 h 29 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 53 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 36 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Rochester daylight page.

Places near Rochester

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Byron, 8.2 miles away, with 6,809 people.