Park Rapids, Minnesota

Park Rapids population, 2020 to 2024

Park Rapids added 217 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.2%. In the latest year it moved by +93.

Park Rapids covers 7.39 square miles of land and 0.28 of water, for 593 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Park Rapids is less dense than the typical town.

What county Park Rapids is in

All of Park Rapids's residents live in Hubbard County, which had 22,050 residents in 2024. Park Rapids holds 19.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Park Rapids

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Park Rapids by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56470. 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 Park Rapids is

The Census internal point of Park Rapids is at 46.916400, -95.057900. Saint Paul, the capital, is 164.9 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Detroit Lakes, MN (10,033 people), 38.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fargo, ND, 83.7 miles away.

Daylight in Park Rapids

At 46.92° N, Park Rapids gets about 15 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 31 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Park Rapids

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Menahga, 11.4 miles away, with 1,366 people.