Perham, Minnesota

Perham population, 2020 to 2024

Perham added 193 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.5%. In the latest year it moved by +34.

Perham covers 3.58 square miles of land, for 1,036 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Perham is less dense than the typical town.

What county Perham is in

All of Perham's residents live in Otter Tail County, which had 60,884 residents in 2024. Perham holds 6.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Perham

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Perham by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56573. 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 Perham is

The Census internal point of Perham is at 46.599600, -95.577100. Saint Paul, the capital, is 164.7 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Detroit Lakes, MN (10,033 people), 19.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fargo, ND, 62.1 miles away.

Daylight in Perham

At 46.60° N, Perham gets about 15 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 34 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Perham

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Frazee, 10.8 miles away, with 1,310 people.