St. Peter, Minnesota

St. Peter population, 2020 to 2024

St. Peter added 377 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.1%. In the latest year it moved by +144. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 53rd; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so St. Peter is 87% of it.

St. Peter covers 6.07 square miles of land and 0.18 of water, for 2,052 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so St. Peter is denser than the typical town.

What county St. Peter is in

All of St. Peter's residents live in Nicollet County, which had 34,493 residents in 2024. St. Peter holds 36.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in St. Peter

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps St. Peter by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56082. 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. Peter is

The Census internal point of St. Peter is at 44.329300, -93.967700. Saint Paul, the capital, is 60.7 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is North Mankato, MN (14,142 people), 10.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 55.7 miles away.

Daylight in St. Peter

At 44.33° N, St. Peter 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 St. Peter

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Le Sueur, 10.3 miles away, with 4,230 people.