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Wright County
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county in Minnesota, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Minnesota
- Founded
- February 20, 1855
- Named after
- Silas Wright
- Seat
- Buffalo
- Largest city
- Otsego
- Total
- 714 sq mi (1,850 km )
- Land
- 661 sq mi (1,710 km )
- Water
- 53 sq mi (140 km ) 7.4%
- Estimate 2025
- 157,559
- Density
- 238.4/sq mi (92.0/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 6th
- Website
- www .wrightcountymn .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 141337
- Area
- 714
- Official website
- www.co.wright.mn.us
- Image
- HowardLakeCityHall.jpg
- Households
- 49097
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- Commons category
- Wright County, Minnesota
- water as percent of area
- 7.4
- native label
- Wright County
- inception
- 1855-02-20
- social media followers
- 1167
- per capita income
- 37416
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Wright County is a county in the East Central part of the U.S. state of Minnesota. The population was 141,337 at the 2020 census, then growing to an estimated 157,557 in 2025. Its county seat is Buffalo. The county was founded in 1855. Wright County is part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area. In terms of population, Wright County is the tenth-largest county in Minnesota and the fastest growing.
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