Minnesota · Census place 2749732

Parkers Prairie, Minnesota

Parkers Prairie is a city in Otter Tail County, Minnesota with an estimated 1,029 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 354th largest of 357 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,029
#354 of 357 in Minnesota
Change since 2020
+1.2%
+12 people
Land area
1.3 sq mi
Density
823 / sq mi
State median 1,692
Orange pin: Parkers Prairie. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Saint Paul.

Parkers Prairie population, 2020 to 2024

Parkers Prairie added 12 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.2%. In the latest year it moved by +1.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,018. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Parkers Prairie covers 1.25 square miles of land, for 823 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Parkers Prairie is less dense than the typical town.

What county Parkers Prairie is in

All of Parkers Prairie's residents live in Otter Tail County, which had 60,884 residents in 2024. Parkers Prairie holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Parkers Prairie

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Parkers Prairie by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56361. 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 Parkers Prairie is

The Census internal point of Parkers Prairie is at 46.152800, -95.328300. Saint Paul, the capital, is 135.8 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Alexandria, MN (14,914 people), 19.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fargo, ND, 86.7 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
46.152800, -95.328300
DMS
46°09'10.08"N 95°19'41.88"W
UTM
15N 320213.2E 5113660.0N
Geohash
cbhnwcb59
Plus code
86R65M3C+4M

Daylight in Parkers Prairie

At 46.15° N, Parkers Prairie gets about 15 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 37 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Parkers Prairie

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Alexandria, 19.2 miles away, with 14,914 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Parkers Prairie, MN?

1,029 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 12 (1.2%) from 1,017 in July 2020.

What county is Parkers Prairie in?

Otter Tail County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Parkers Prairie?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 56361.

How far is Parkers Prairie from Saint Paul?

135.8 miles (218.6 km) in a straight line, heading SE from Parkers Prairie.

What is the nearest larger city to Parkers Prairie?

Alexandria, MN, with 14,914 residents, 19.2 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.