Bemidji, Minnesota

Bemidji population, 2020 to 2024

Bemidji added 325 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.1%. In the latest year it moved by +16. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 66th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Bemidji is 1.1 times that size.

Bemidji covers 17.44 square miles of land and 4.89 of water, for 902 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Bemidji is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bemidji is in

All of Bemidji's residents live in Beltrami County, which had 46,762 residents in 2024. Bemidji holds 33.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bemidji

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bemidji by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56601. 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 Bemidji is

The Census internal point of Bemidji is at 47.487000, -94.882700. Saint Paul, the capital, is 194.5 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hibbing, MN (15,940 people), 90.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fargo, ND, 101.0 miles away.

Daylight in Bemidji

At 47.49° N, Bemidji gets about 15 h 58 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 27 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bemidji

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Bagley, 24.4 miles away, with 1,304 people.