Minnesota · Census place 2768584
Waterville, Minnesota
Waterville is a city in Le Sueur County, Minnesota with an estimated 1,763 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 282nd largest of 357 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 1,763
- #282 of 357 in Minnesota
- Change since 2020
- +1.1%
- +19 people
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- + 0.38 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,043 / sq mi
- State median 1,692
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Waterville population, 2020 to 2024
Waterville added 19 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +8.
Waterville covers 1.69 square miles of land and 0.38 of water, for 1,043 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Waterville is less dense than the typical town.
What county Waterville is in
All of Waterville's residents live in Le Sueur County, which had 29,458 residents in 2024. Waterville holds 6.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Waterville
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Waterville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56096. 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 Waterville is
The Census internal point of Waterville is at 44.221900, -93.572600. Saint Paul, the capital, is 55.7 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Janesville, MN (2,462 people), 9.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 53.4 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 44.221900, -93.572600
- DMS
- 44°13'18.84"N 93°34'21.36"W
- UTM
- 15N 454263.7E 4896678.7N
- Geohash
- 9zv7wdqe0
- Plus code
- 86P86CCG+QX
Daylight in Waterville
At 44.22° N, Waterville gets about 15 h 31 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 39 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Waterville
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Morristown, 6.3 miles away, with 1,016 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Waterville, MN?
1,763 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 19 (1.1%) from 1,744 in July 2020.
What county is Waterville in?
Le Sueur County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Waterville?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 56096.
How far is Waterville from Saint Paul?
55.7 miles (89.6 km) in a straight line, heading NNE from Waterville.
What is the nearest larger city to Waterville?
Janesville, MN, with 2,462 residents, 9.8 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.