Sleepy Eye, Minnesota

Sleepy Eye population, 2020 to 2024

Sleepy Eye added 46 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +0.

Sleepy Eye covers 1.87 square miles of land and 0.27 of water, for 1,866 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Sleepy Eye is denser than the typical town.

What county Sleepy Eye is in

All of Sleepy Eye's residents live in Brown County, which had 25,710 residents in 2024. Sleepy Eye holds 13.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sleepy Eye

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sleepy Eye by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56085. 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 Sleepy Eye is

The Census internal point of Sleepy Eye is at 44.298900, -94.723600. Saint Paul, the capital, is 91.7 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is New Ulm, MN (13,970 people), 12.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 85.0 miles away.

Daylight in Sleepy Eye

At 44.30° N, Sleepy Eye gets about 15 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sleepy Eye

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is New Ulm, 12.6 miles away, with 13,970 people.