Hugo, Minnesota

Hugo population, 2020 to 2024

Hugo added 957 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.1%. In the latest year it moved by +228. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 36th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Hugo is 1.2 times that size.

Hugo covers 33.46 square miles of land and 2.57 of water, for 501 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Hugo is less dense than the typical town.

What county Hugo is in

All of Hugo's residents live in Washington County, which had 283,960 residents in 2024. Hugo holds 5.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hugo

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Hugo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55038, 55110. 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 Hugo is

The Census internal point of Hugo is at 45.164200, -92.960100. Saint Paul, the capital, is 16.0 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Forest Lake, MN (20,700 people), 6.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Paul, MN, 16.5 miles away.

Daylight in Hugo

At 45.16° N, Hugo gets about 15 h 38 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 54 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hugo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Dellwood, 4.5 miles away, with 1,147 people.