Carver, Minnesota

Carver population, 2020 to 2024

Carver added 1,373 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +25.3%. In the latest year it moved by +195. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 4th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Carver is 48% of it.

Carver covers 4.76 square miles of land and 0.20 of water, for 1,431 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Carver is less dense than the typical town.

What county Carver is in

All of Carver's residents live in Carver County, which had 112,628 residents in 2024. Carver holds 6.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Carver

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Carver by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55315, 55318. 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 Carver is

The Census internal point of Carver is at 44.761500, -93.632500. Saint Paul, the capital, is 29.2 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Chaska, MN (30,167 people), 4.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 22.6 miles away.

Daylight in Carver

At 44.76° N, Carver 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 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Carver

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Chaska, 4.0 miles away, with 30,167 people.