How many people live in Cold Spring?

Cold Spring Police patrol 24 hours a day, the city population according to the state demographers office in 2018 is 4,201.

The Cold Spring Police also contract Police services to the City of Richmond, which has a population of 1,478.

Cold Spring is located in Stearns County (population approximately 159,258) the sixth largest county in the state.  Cold Spring is 10 miles west of St. Cloud (popluation approximately 68,000) and about 1 hour north of the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area (population 3.1 million).

With two of the counties largest employers, Pilgrims and Coldspring, located within the patrol area and Minnesota Highway 23 running through the city, the department handles a wide variety of calls for service.