Winona, Minnesota

Winona population, 2020 to 2024

Winona added 189 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +94. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 90th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Winona is 1.8 times that size.

Winona covers 18.98 square miles of land and 5.29 of water, for 1,379 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Winona is less dense than the typical town.

What county Winona is in

All of Winona's residents live in Winona County, which had 49,973 residents in 2024. Winona holds 52.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Winona

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Winona by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55987. 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 Winona is

The Census internal point of Winona is at 44.051300, -91.668100. Saint Paul, the capital, is 94.3 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is La Crosse, WI (51,049 people), 27.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rochester, MN, 40.3 miles away.

Daylight in Winona

At 44.05° N, Winona gets about 15 h 30 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 53 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Winona

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Goodview, 2.6 miles away, with 4,088 people.