St. Cloud · Lake Gentry

Compared with the rest of the metro, St. Cloud is not above the metro middle for any category we measure — least so for grocery stores and big-box and hardware stores.

That 42 is the typical resident's score, averaged across this ZIP code's 9 Census block groups and weighted by population. Its best-served part scores 52. A ZIP code covers a lot of ground, and the two numbers answer different questions.

Variation Inside This ZIP Code

Scores here run from 18 to 52. Each row below is one Census block group, the smallest area the Census reports population for, and this ZIP code's 42 is those scores averaged, weighted by how many people live in each.

Score	Residents	Share	Density
52	4,096	12%	Suburban
50	4,350	13%	Urban
47	4,329	13%	Suburban
46	4,537	14%	Urban
40	5,851	18%	Suburban
39	2,659	8%	Exurban
33	4,335	13%	Exurban
31	1,171	4%	Exurban
18	2,002	6%	Exurban

Scored from an OpenStreetMap snapshot taken September 03, 2026, averaged across this ZIP code’s Census block groups weighted by population. ZCTA boundaries approximate USPS ZIP codes, which are delivery routes rather than areas.