Belle Plaine, Minnesota

Belle Plaine population, 2020 to 2024

Belle Plaine added 76 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.0%. In the latest year it moved by +17. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 82nd; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Belle Plaine is 52% of it.

Belle Plaine covers 5.97 square miles of land and 0.22 of water, for 1,247 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Belle Plaine is less dense than the typical town.

What county Belle Plaine is in

All of Belle Plaine's residents live in Scott County, which had 157,206 residents in 2024. Belle Plaine holds 4.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Belle Plaine

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Belle Plaine by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56011. 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 Belle Plaine is

The Census internal point of Belle Plaine is at 44.619800, -93.764600. Saint Paul, the capital, is 39.9 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is New Prague, MN (8,235 people), 10.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 34.0 miles away.

Daylight in Belle Plaine

At 44.62° N, Belle Plaine gets about 15 h 34 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 49 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Belle Plaine

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Jordan, 6.9 miles away, with 6,831 people.