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Owatonna, MN Micro Area

The Owatonna, MN micro area is one county in Minnesota: Steele County. About 37,464 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 0.1% more than in April 2020.

Steele County, centralOwatonna
Steele County in Minnesota
Population, July 2025
37,464 0.1% more than in April 2020
Type
Micropolitan statistical area
County
Steele County
Land area
430 sq mi (1,113 km²)
Time zone
Central TimeUTC-06:00 in January; UTC-05:00 in July
State
Minnesota
Combined statistical area
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI
CBSA code
36940
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The county in the Owatonna, MN micro area

CountyRolePopulation, July 2025
Steele CountyCentral37,464

A central county holds the area’s core, an urban area of 10,000 to 49,999 people. This area has no outlying counties: no neighboring county sends enough commuters to join it. A county belongs to one metro or micro area at most, and it counts whole, countryside included.

Principal city

  1. Owatonna26,498 people

OMB names the area after its largest principal cities. A principal city is the area’s largest city, plus any other city that is very large or a big job center, and smaller ones with at least as many jobs as working residents (2020 Census and commuting figures). People counts are American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates.

Part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 5 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro Area3,790,295 people
  2. St. Cloud, MN Metro Area205,854 people
  3. Faribault-Northfield, MN Micro Area69,939 people
  4. Red Wing, MN Micro Area48,195 people
  5. Hutchinson, MN Micro Area36,631 people

Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first

Areas with a county on this area’s edge. Distances are straight lines between the areas’ largest cities.

  1. Faribault-Northfield, MN Micro Area15 mi north
  2. Albert Lea, MN Micro Area31 mi south
  3. Austin, MN Micro Area32 mi southeast
  4. Rochester, MN Metro Area38 mi east

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A metro or micro area is a statistical area that OMB draws for federal statistics. It is not a city, a local government or a mailing address, and it is not a measure of urban and rural: whole counties count, rural parts included. Programs that use metro areas, such as housing income limits or wage rates, can use their own version of these lists; check the program’s own list for an address.

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