Crystal, Minnesota

Crystal population, 2020 to 2024

Crystal lost 1,164 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.0%. In the latest year it moved by +93. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 150th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Crystal is 1.5 times that size.

Crystal covers 5.79 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 3,814 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Crystal is denser than the typical town.

What county Crystal is in

All of Crystal's residents live in Hennepin County, which had 1,273,334 residents in 2024. Crystal holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Crystal

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Crystal by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55422, 55427, 55428, 55429. 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 Crystal is

The Census internal point of Crystal is at 45.037300, -93.359500. Saint Paul, the capital, is 13.8 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Brooklyn Center, MN (31,755 people), 2.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 6.8 miles away.

Daylight in Crystal

At 45.04° N, Crystal gets about 15 h 37 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 Crystal

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is New Hope, 1.3 miles away, with 20,745 people.