Richfield, Minnesota

Richfield population, 2020 to 2024

Richfield lost 434 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.2%. In the latest year it moved by -76. Among 155 Minnesota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 115th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Minnesota has 14,258 people, so Richfield is 2.6 times that size.

Richfield covers 6.78 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 5,382 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Richfield is denser than the typical town.

What county Richfield is in

All of Richfield's residents live in Hennepin County, which had 1,273,334 residents in 2024. Richfield holds 2.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Richfield

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Richfield by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55423. 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 Richfield is

The Census internal point of Richfield is at 44.874400, -93.282400. Saint Paul, the capital, is 10.4 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bloomington, MN (88,344 people), 3.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 6.2 miles away.

Daylight in Richfield

At 44.87° N, Richfield 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 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Richfield

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Bloomington, 3.5 miles away, with 88,344 people.