Long Prairie, Minnesota

Long Prairie population, 2020 to 2024

Long Prairie added 57 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +0.

Long Prairie covers 2.75 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 1,349 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Long Prairie is less dense than the typical town.

What county Long Prairie is in

All of Long Prairie's residents live in Todd County, which had 25,955 residents in 2024. Long Prairie holds 14.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Long Prairie

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Long Prairie by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56347. 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 Long Prairie is

The Census internal point of Long Prairie is at 45.974700, -94.861400. Saint Paul, the capital, is 110.6 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sauk Centre, MN (4,682 people), 17.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 104.1 miles away.

Daylight in Long Prairie

At 45.97° N, Long Prairie gets about 15 h 45 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 39 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 06 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Long Prairie

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Osakis, 15.9 miles away, with 1,747 people.