Minnesota · Census place 2758648

Sauk Centre, Minnesota

Sauk Centre is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota with an estimated 4,682 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 163rd largest of 357 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
4,682
#163 of 357 in Minnesota
Change since 2020
+2.5%
+116 people
Land area
4.1 sq mi
Density
1,142 / sq mi
State median 1,692
Orange pin: Sauk Centre. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Saint Paul.

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Sauk Centre population, 2020 to 2024

Sauk Centre added 116 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +34.

4,56620204,60820214,62220224,64820234,6822024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 4,563. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Sauk Centre covers 4.10 square miles of land, for 1,142 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Sauk Centre is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sauk Centre is in

All of Sauk Centre's residents live in Stearns County, which had 163,997 residents in 2024. Sauk Centre holds 2.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sauk Centre

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sauk Centre by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56378. 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 Sauk Centre is

The Census internal point of Sauk Centre is at 45.736500, -94.952700. Saint Paul, the capital, is 104.8 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Alexandria, MN (14,914 people), 22.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 97.7 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
45.736500, -94.952700
DMS
45°44'11.40"N 94°57'9.72"W
UTM
15N 348082.5E 5066625.8N
Geohash
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Plus code
86Q7P2PW+JW

Daylight in Sauk Centre

At 45.74° N, Sauk Centre gets about 15 h 43 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 40 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 03 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sauk Centre

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Melrose, 7.8 miles away, with 3,911 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Sauk Centre, MN?

4,682 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 116 (2.5%) from 4,566 in July 2020.

What county is Sauk Centre in?

Stearns County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Sauk Centre?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 56378.

How far is Sauk Centre from Saint Paul?

104.8 miles (168.7 km) in a straight line, heading ESE from Sauk Centre.

What is the nearest larger city to Sauk Centre?

Alexandria, MN, with 14,914 residents, 22.6 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.