Brooklyn Center, Minnesota

Brooklyn Center population, 2020 to 2024

Brooklyn Center lost 1,905 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.7%. In the latest year it moved by -59. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 154th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Brooklyn Center is 2.2 times that size.

Brooklyn Center covers 8.00 square miles of land and 0.38 of water, for 3,969 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Brooklyn Center is denser than the typical town.

What county Brooklyn Center is in

All of Brooklyn Center's residents live in Hennepin County, which had 1,273,334 residents in 2024. Brooklyn Center holds 2.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Brooklyn Center

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Brooklyn Center by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55429, 55430. 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 Brooklyn Center is

The Census internal point of Brooklyn Center is at 45.068000, -93.317800. Saint Paul, the capital, is 13.1 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Brooklyn Park, MN (82,893 people), 3.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 7.6 miles away.

Daylight in Brooklyn Center

At 45.07° N, Brooklyn Center gets about 15 h 38 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Brooklyn Center

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Crystal, 2.9 miles away, with 22,082 people.