Coon Rapids, Minnesota

Coon Rapids population, 2020 to 2024

Coon Rapids added 206 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +306. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 96th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Coon Rapids is 4.5 times that size.

Coon Rapids covers 22.60 square miles of land and 0.73 of water, for 2,823 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Coon Rapids is denser than the typical town.

What county Coon Rapids is in

All of Coon Rapids's residents live in Anoka County, which had 376,840 residents in 2024. Coon Rapids holds 16.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Coon Rapids

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Coon Rapids by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55433, 55448. 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 Coon Rapids is

The Census internal point of Coon Rapids is at 45.176400, -93.311500. Saint Paul, the capital, is 18.4 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Brooklyn Park, MN (82,893 people), 4.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 14.9 miles away.

Daylight in Coon Rapids

At 45.18° N, Coon Rapids 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 Coon Rapids

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Champlin, 3.7 miles away, with 23,045 people.