Staples, Minnesota

Staples population, 2020 to 2024

Staples added 58 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.9%. In the latest year it moved by +20.

Staples covers 4.76 square miles of land, for 646 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Staples is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Staples spans

Staples crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 3,075 residents as follows; Todd County holds 70.8% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Staples

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Staples by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56479. 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 Staples is

The Census internal point of Staples is at 46.372200, -94.815000. Saint Paul, the capital, is 128.2 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wadena, MN (4,373 people), 15.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fargo, ND, 101.5 miles away.

Daylight in Staples

At 46.37° N, Staples gets about 15 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 36 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Staples

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Wadena, 15.7 miles away, with 4,373 people.