Silver Bay, Minnesota

Silver Bay population, 2020 to 2024

Silver Bay lost 84 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.5%. In the latest year it moved by -39.

Silver Bay covers 7.63 square miles of land and 0.43 of water, for 233 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Silver Bay is less dense than the typical town.

What county Silver Bay is in

All of Silver Bay's residents live in Lake County, which had 10,698 residents in 2024. Silver Bay holds 16.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Silver Bay

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Silver Bay by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55614. 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 Silver Bay is

The Census internal point of Silver Bay is at 47.293300, -91.276800. Saint Paul, the capital, is 183.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Two Harbors, MN (3,456 people), 26.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Paul, MN, 184.1 miles away.

Daylight in Silver Bay

At 47.29° N, Silver Bay gets about 15 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Silver Bay

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Two Harbors, 26.1 miles away, with 3,456 people.