Waite Park, Minnesota

Waite Park population, 2020 to 2024

Waite Park added 162 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.9%. In the latest year it moved by +50. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 67th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Waite Park is 60% of it.

Waite Park covers 12.63 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 673 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Waite Park is less dense than the typical town.

What county Waite Park is in

All of Waite Park's residents live in Stearns County, which had 163,997 residents in 2024. Waite Park holds 5.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Waite Park

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Waite Park by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56301, 56387. 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 Waite Park is

The Census internal point of Waite Park is at 45.520900, -94.243000. Saint Paul, the capital, is 67.9 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. Cloud, MN (72,145 people), 3.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 61.1 miles away.

Daylight in Waite Park

At 45.52° N, Waite Park 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 Waite Park

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is St. Cloud, 3.5 miles away, with 72,145 people.