St. Cloud, Minnesota

St. Cloud population, 2020 to 2024

St. Cloud added 2,535 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.6%. In the latest year it moved by +704. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 48th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so St. Cloud is 5.1 times that size.

St. Cloud covers 40.22 square miles of land and 0.92 of water, for 1,794 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so St. Cloud is close to the typical town.

The 3 counties St. Cloud spans

St. Cloud crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 72,145 residents as follows; Stearns County holds 79.3% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in St. Cloud

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap St. Cloud by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56301, 56303, 56304. 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 St. Cloud is

The Census internal point of St. Cloud is at 45.526700, -94.171000. Saint Paul, the capital, is 65.3 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Maple Grove, MN (72,739 people), 44.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 58.7 miles away.

Daylight in St. Cloud

At 45.53° N, St. Cloud gets about 15 h 41 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near St. Cloud

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Waite Park, 3.5 miles away, with 8,504 people.