Willmar, Minnesota

Willmar population, 2020 to 2024

Willmar added 850 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.0%. In the latest year it moved by +324. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 46th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Willmar is 1.5 times that size.

Willmar covers 14.23 square miles of land and 1.35 of water, for 1,538 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Willmar is close to the typical town.

What county Willmar is in

All of Willmar's residents live in Kandiyohi County, which had 44,674 residents in 2024. Willmar holds 49.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Willmar

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Willmar by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56201. 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 Willmar is

The Census internal point of Willmar is at 45.121000, -95.058700. Saint Paul, the capital, is 96.2 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. Cloud, MN (72,145 people), 51.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 88.1 miles away.

Daylight in Willmar

At 45.12° N, Willmar gets about 15 h 38 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Willmar

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Spicer, 9.7 miles away, with 1,099 people.