Minnesota · United States
Detroit Lakes population
9,002people · latest figure
Detroit Lakes has a population of 9,002, making it the 4074th largest place we list in United States. It is in Minnesota.
Detroit Lakes holds under a tenth of one per cent of United States's 349,035,494 people. New York City, the largest place we list there, is 978 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 7,782, a rise of 16%.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Detroit Lakes is in Minnesota, which has 512 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Scott | Louisiana | 9,018 |
| Fitzgerald | Georgia | 9,013 |
| Alexandria | Kentucky | 9,009 |
| Mechanicsburg | Pennsylvania | 8,999 |
| Garden City | Georgia | 8,999 |
| Toppenish | Washington | 8,995 |
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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.