Lester Prairie, Minnesota

Lester Prairie population, 2020 to 2024

Lester Prairie lost 4 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.2%. In the latest year it moved by -8.

Lester Prairie covers 1.00 square miles of land, for 1,895 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Lester Prairie is denser than the typical town.

What county Lester Prairie is in

All of Lester Prairie's residents live in McLeod County, which had 36,780 residents in 2024. Lester 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 Lester Prairie

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lester Prairie by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55354. 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 Lester Prairie is

The Census internal point of Lester Prairie is at 44.883300, -94.037000. Saint Paul, the capital, is 46.0 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Winsted, MN (2,221 people), 5.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 38.0 miles away.

Daylight in Lester Prairie

At 44.88° N, Lester Prairie gets about 15 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lester Prairie

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Winsted, 5.2 miles away, with 2,221 people.