St. Louis Park, Minnesota

St. Louis Park
St. Louis Park City Hall
St. Louis Park City Hall
Nickname: 
SLP
Motto: 
"Experience Life in the Park"
Location of the city of St. Louis Park within Hennepin County, Minnesota
Location of the city of St. Louis Park
within Hennepin County, Minnesota
Coordinates: 44°56′54″N 93°20′53″W / 44.94833°N 93.34806°W / 44.94833; -93.34806
CountryUnited States
StateMinnesota
CountyHennepin
Founded1852
IncorporatedNovember 19, 1886
Government
 • MayorNadia Mohamed (nonpartisan)
Area
 • City
10.85 sq mi (28.09 km2)
 • Land10.63 sq mi (27.53 km2)
 • Water0.22 sq mi (0.56 km2)
Elevation
899 ft (274 m)
Population
 • City
50,010
 • Estimate 
(2022)[3]
48,827
 • RankUS: 821st
MN: 20th
 • Density4,705.49/sq mi (1,816.82/km2)
 • Urban
2,914,866 (US: 16th)
 • Metro
3,693,729 (US: 16th)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP codes
55416, 55424, 55426
Area code952
FIPS code27-57220
GNIS feature ID0650797[4]
Websitestlouispark.org

St. Louis Park is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 50,010 at the 2020 census.[2] It is a first-ring suburb immediately west of Minneapolis. Other adjacent cities include Edina, Golden Valley, Minnetonka, Plymouth, and Hopkins.

The Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, which has a major collection of antique radio and television equipment, is also in the city. Items range from radios produced by local manufacturers to the Vitaphone system used to cut discs carrying audio for the first "talkie", The Jazz Singer.

The Coen brothers set their 2009 film A Serious Man in St. Louis Park c. 1967. It was important to the Coens to find a neighborhood of original-looking suburban rambler homes as they would have appeared in St. Louis Park in the mid-1960s, and after careful scouting they opted to film scenes in a neighborhood of nearby Bloomington,[5][6] as well as at St. Louis Park's B'nai Emet Synagogue, which was later sold and converted into a school.

  1. ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Explore Census Data". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference USCensusEst2022 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  5. ^ "Coen brothers to get 'Serious' in Minnesota | StarTribune.com". Star Tribune. Archived from the original on November 3, 2009. Retrieved November 22, 2009.
  6. ^ "In Twin Cities, Coen brothers shoot from heart". Star Tribune. Archived from the original on December 3, 2008.