Burnsville, Minnesota

Burnsville population, 2020 to 2024

Burnsville added 345 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by -64. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 93rd; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Burnsville is 4.5 times that size.

Burnsville covers 24.94 square miles of land and 2.05 of water, for 2,601 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Burnsville is denser than the typical town.

What county Burnsville is in

All of Burnsville's residents live in Dakota County, which had 453,156 residents in 2024. Burnsville holds 14.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Burnsville

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Burnsville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55306, 55337. 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 Burnsville is

The Census internal point of Burnsville is at 44.764400, -93.279400. Saint Paul, the capital, is 15.8 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bloomington, MN (88,344 people), 4.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 13.7 miles away.

Daylight in Burnsville

At 44.76° N, Burnsville gets about 15 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Burnsville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Apple Valley, 4.1 miles away, with 55,272 people.