Buffalo, Minnesota

Buffalo population, 2020 to 2024

Buffalo added 451 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.8%. In the latest year it moved by +164. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 55th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Buffalo is 1.2 times that size.

Buffalo covers 7.76 square miles of land and 2.14 of water, for 2,157 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Buffalo is denser than the typical town.

What county Buffalo is in

All of Buffalo's residents live in Wright County, which had 154,593 residents in 2024. Buffalo holds 10.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Buffalo

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Buffalo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55313. 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 Buffalo is

The Census internal point of Buffalo is at 45.179500, -93.864000. Saint Paul, the capital, is 40.3 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. Michael, MN (21,681 people), 8.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 32.7 miles away.

Daylight in Buffalo

At 45.18° N, Buffalo gets about 15 h 39 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 54 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Buffalo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Maple Lake, 8.0 miles away, with 2,214 people.