Is Minnesota's population growing or shrinking?
Refreshed annually
It grew by 33,000 between 2024 and 2025. That’s more than the population of the city of Savage. 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, 1901–2025
What contributes to population change in Minnesota?
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, 2011–2025
Which counties in Minnesota are growing? Which are shrinking?
Among 87 county equivalents, Hennepin County had the largest population growth in Minnesota, welcoming 7,700 new residents. McLeod County lost the most, with a loss of 192 residents. County-level population data is available as of 2025.
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Wright County led Minnesota in percent population increase between 2024 and 2025 at 1.9%. Mahnomen County ranked last with a 1.7% decline.
Between 2024 and 2025, Wright County gained 1.9% in population, the largest increase in Minnesota.
Population change
How does population change in Minnesota compare to other states?
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
Population change between 2024 and 2025, by county in Minnesota
| County | Population change rate | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Wright County, MN | +1.9% |
| 2. | Isanti County, MN | +1.7% |
| 3. | Carver County, MN | +1.6% |
| 4. | Washington County, MN | +1.4% |
| 5. | Red Lake County, MN | +1.2% |
| 6. | Hubbard County, MN | +1.1% |
| 7. | Sherburne County, MN | +1% |
| 8. | Scott County, MN | +0.99% |
| 9. | Anoka County, MN | +0.99% |
| 10. | Dakota County, MN | +0.87% |
Population change between 2015 and 2025, by state
| State | Population change rate | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Idaho | +22% |
| 2. | Utah | +17.9% |
| 3. | Florida | +16.5% |
| 4. | Texas | +15.8% |
| 5. | Nevada | +14.9% |
| 6. | South Carolina | +14.8% |
| 7. | Arizona | +13.7% |
| 8. | North Carolina | +12.4% |
| 9. | Delaware | +12.2% |
| 10. | Washington state | +11.4% |
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