Is population growing or shrinking?

Updated annually
It grew by 33,000 between 2024 and 2025. Changes in population reflect birth and death rates, immigration patterns, regional shifts, and even the overall health of the economy. Minnesota’s 0.57% annual increase was primarily driven by immigration to the state. In the decade between 2015 and 2025, Minnesota’s population grew by 5.8%.

+33K

population change (2024 to 2025)

+0.57%

percent change in population (2024 to 2025)
Since 2000, Minnesota's population increased in 25 of 25 years. The largest increase occurred between 2000 and 2001, when it gained 49,100 residents. The state's smallest increase during the 21st century occurred between 2020 and 2021 when it gained 3,500 residents.

Minnesota gained 33,000 residents between 2024 and 2025.

Annual population change

A state’s population is influenced by three factors:
  • Natural population change: If births outnumber deaths in a given year, natural population growth is positive. If deaths exceed births, it is negative. Between 2024 to 2025 natural population change was positive in Minnesota, with births exceeding deaths by 12,100.
  • Immigration: international migration directly into or out of a state. If more people move in than move out, population change from immigration is positive. If more people move out than move in, it’s negative. Minnesota’s population change from immigration was positive, with about 12,500 more people coming from another country to Minnesota than leaving.
  • Domestic migration, moving between states: Minnesota’s population change from domestic migration was positive, with about 8,300 more people moving to Minnesota from other states than leaving.

Between 2024 and 2025, immigration was the primary driver of population growth in Minnesota.

Components of population change

Among 87 county equivalents, Hennepin County had the largest population growth in Minnesota, welcoming 10,124 new residents. Houston County lost the most, with a loss of 225 residents. County-level population data is available as of 2024.
Wright County led Minnesota in percent population increase between 2023 and 2024 at 2.1 percent. Lake County ranked last with a 1.5 percent decline.

Between 2023 and 2024, Wright County gained 2.1% in population, the largest increase in Minnesota.

Population change

Between 2015 and 2025, Minnesota’s population has increased by 5.8%. During that same period, the US population grew by 6.2%. Minnesota ranks 20th among states in population growth over that decade.

Minnesota ranked 20th in population growth between 2015 and 2025.

Percent change in population

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Methodology

USAFacts standardizes data, in areas such as time and demographics, to make it easier to understand and compare.

The analysis was generated with the help of AI and reviewed by USAFacts for accuracy.

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