Minnesota · Census place 2720078
Excelsior, Minnesota
Excelsior is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota with an estimated 2,296 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 250th largest of 357 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 2,296
- #250 of 357 in Minnesota
- Change since 2020
- -2.5%
- -60 people
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- + 0.25 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,644 / sq mi
- State median 1,692
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Excelsior population, 2020 to 2024
Excelsior lost 60 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +11.
Excelsior covers 0.63 square miles of land and 0.25 of water, for 3,644 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Excelsior is denser than the typical town.
What county Excelsior is in
All of Excelsior's residents live in Hennepin County, which had 1,273,334 residents in 2024. Excelsior holds 0.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Excelsior
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Excelsior by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55331. 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 Excelsior is
The Census internal point of Excelsior is at 44.902700, -93.566400. Saint Paul, the capital, is 23.0 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Shorewood, MN (7,557 people), 1.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 15.2 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 44.902700, -93.566400
- DMS
- 44°54'9.72"N 93°33'59.04"W
- UTM
- 15N 455283.5E 4972297.7N
- Geohash
- 9zvrqy710
- Plus code
- 86P8WC3M+3C
Daylight in Excelsior
At 44.90° N, Excelsior gets about 15 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Excelsior
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Tonka Bay, 1.2 miles away, with 1,540 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Excelsior, MN?
2,296 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 60 (2.5%) from 2,356 in July 2020.
What county is Excelsior in?
Hennepin County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Excelsior?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 55331.
How far is Excelsior from Saint Paul?
23.0 miles (37.0 km) in a straight line, heading E from Excelsior.
What is the nearest larger city to Excelsior?
Shorewood, MN, with 7,557 residents, 1.4 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.