Windom, Minnesota

Windom population, 2020 to 2024

Windom lost 13 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.3%. In the latest year it moved by -39.

Windom covers 4.10 square miles of land and 0.16 of water, for 1,170 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Windom is less dense than the typical town.

What county Windom is in

All of Windom's residents live in Cottonwood County, which had 11,338 residents in 2024. Windom holds 42.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Windom

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Windom by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56101. 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 Windom is

The Census internal point of Windom is at 43.873600, -95.119100. Saint Paul, the capital, is 124.5 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Worthington, MN (13,754 people), 29.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sioux Falls, SD, 83.8 miles away.

Daylight in Windom

At 43.87° N, Windom gets about 15 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Windom

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Mountain Lake, 10.6 miles away, with 1,944 people.