Hopkins, Minnesota

Hopkins population, 2020 to 2024

Hopkins added 453 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.4%. In the latest year it moved by +806. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 62nd; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Hopkins is 1.4 times that size.

Hopkins covers 4.06 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 4,794 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Hopkins is denser than the typical town.

What county Hopkins is in

All of Hopkins's residents live in Hennepin County, which had 1,273,334 residents in 2024. Hopkins holds 1.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hopkins

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Hopkins by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55305, 55343. 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 Hopkins is

The Census internal point of Hopkins is at 44.925100, -93.404500. Saint Paul, the capital, is 14.9 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. Louis Park, MN (49,899 people), 2.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 7.1 miles away.

Daylight in Hopkins

At 44.93° N, Hopkins gets about 15 h 37 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 Hopkins

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is St. Louis Park, 2.5 miles away, with 49,899 people.