Cloquet, Minnesota

Cloquet population, 2020 to 2024

Cloquet lost 92 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.7%. In the latest year it moved by -49. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 107th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Cloquet is 87% of it.

Cloquet covers 35.22 square miles of land and 0.80 of water, for 354 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Cloquet is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cloquet is in

All of Cloquet's residents live in Carlton County, which had 36,745 residents in 2024. Cloquet holds 34.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cloquet

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cloquet by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55720. 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 Cloquet is

The Census internal point of Cloquet is at 46.725100, -92.501300. Saint Paul, the capital, is 125.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Duluth, MN (87,986 people), 17.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Paul, MN, 126.1 miles away.

Daylight in Cloquet

At 46.73° N, Cloquet gets about 15 h 51 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 33 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cloquet

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Proctor, 13.0 miles away, with 3,076 people.