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Northfield

Northfield is a city in Rice County, Minnesota, United States.

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Northfield is a city in Rice County, Minnesota, United States. A small portion lies in the adjacent Dakota County. The population was 20,790 at the 2020 census. Northfield is 40 mi (64 km) south of the downtowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul and is an exurb of the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area. It is home to two private liberal arts colleges, Carleton College and St. Olaf College.

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Getting to Northfield

Airports
Minneapolis–Saint Paul / Wold–Chamberlain Field (MSP), 47 km
  • Minneapolis → Northfield
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · $6–8
  • Des Moines → Northfield
    320 km · quickest by road, 4h 52m · $27–37
  • Chicago → Northfield
    30 km · quickest by road, 48 min · $3–4
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No local-transport research exists yet for Northfield

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Northfield. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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Next door to Northfield

Northfield is 55 km from Saint Paul, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.