Moorhead, Minnesota

Moorhead population, 2020 to 2024

Moorhead added 1,182 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.7%. In the latest year it moved by +417. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 56th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Moorhead is 3.2 times that size.

Moorhead covers 22.28 square miles of land, for 2,052 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Moorhead is denser than the typical town.

What county Moorhead is in

All of Moorhead's residents live in Clay County, which had 66,848 residents in 2024. Moorhead holds 68.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Moorhead

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Moorhead by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56560, 56562, 56563. 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 Moorhead is

The Census internal point of Moorhead is at 46.864700, -96.744600. Saint Paul, the capital, is 219.2 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fargo, ND (136,285 people), 4.0 miles away.

Daylight in Moorhead

At 46.86° N, Moorhead gets about 15 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 32 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Moorhead

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Dilworth, 2.5 miles away, with 4,811 people.