Prior Lake, Minnesota

Prior Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Prior Lake added 390 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.4%. In the latest year it moved by -38. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 77th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Prior Lake is 2.0 times that size.

Prior Lake covers 16.29 square miles of land and 3.25 of water, for 1,720 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Prior Lake is close to the typical town.

What county Prior Lake is in

All of Prior Lake's residents live in Scott County, which had 157,206 residents in 2024. Prior Lake holds 17.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Prior Lake

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Prior Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55372, 55379. 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 Prior Lake is

The Census internal point of Prior Lake is at 44.725600, -93.440900. Saint Paul, the capital, is 23.0 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Shakopee, MN (48,401 people), 3.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 18.5 miles away.

Daylight in Prior Lake

At 44.73° N, Prior Lake gets about 15 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Prior Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Shakopee, 3.6 miles away, with 48,401 people.