Blooming Prairie, Minnesota

Blooming Prairie population, 2020 to 2024

Blooming Prairie lost 30 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.5%. In the latest year it moved by -19.

Blooming Prairie covers 1.36 square miles of land, for 1,425 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Blooming Prairie is less dense than the typical town.

What county Blooming Prairie is in

All of Blooming Prairie's residents live in Steele County, which had 37,434 residents in 2024. Blooming Prairie holds 5.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Blooming Prairie

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Blooming Prairie by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55917. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Blooming Prairie is

The Census internal point of Blooming Prairie is at 43.868500, -93.055700. Saint Paul, the capital, is 75.1 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Austin, MN (26,690 people), 14.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rochester, MN, 30.4 miles away.

Daylight in Blooming Prairie

At 43.87° N, Blooming Prairie gets about 15 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Blooming Prairie

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Hayfield, 10.5 miles away, with 1,361 people.