Columbia Heights, Minnesota

Columbia Heights population, 2020 to 2024

Columbia Heights added 414 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.9%. In the latest year it moved by +42. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 68th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Columbia Heights is 1.6 times that size.

Columbia Heights covers 3.41 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 6,557 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Columbia Heights is denser than the typical town.

What county Columbia Heights is in

All of Columbia Heights's residents live in Anoka County, which had 376,840 residents in 2024. Columbia Heights holds 5.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Columbia Heights

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Columbia Heights by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55421. 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 Columbia Heights is

The Census internal point of Columbia Heights is at 45.049100, -93.246700. Saint Paul, the capital, is 9.6 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is New Brighton, MN (22,374 people), 2.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 6.0 miles away.

Daylight in Columbia Heights

At 45.05° N, Columbia Heights gets about 15 h 38 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 46 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 Columbia Heights

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is St. Anthony, 2.0 miles away, with 9,993 people.