Burnsville is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 60,148 people and nine constituent neighborhoods, Burnsville is the tenth largest community in Minnesota.

Burnsville is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Burnsville is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Burnsville who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.56%), sales jobs (13.92%), and management occupations (11.78%).

Also of interest is that Burnsville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One thing noticeable about Burnsville, although not a huge city, is that it has a large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. That's because Burnsville is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Burnsville a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Burnsville is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Burnsville Information and Demographics

The citizens of Burnsville are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 36.84% of adults in Burnsville have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Burnsville in 2000 was $27,093, which is wealthy relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $108,372 for a family of four. However, Burnsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Burnsville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Burnsville home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Burnsville is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Burnsville include German, Norwegian, Irish, Swedish, English, Polish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Burnsville is English. Some people also speak Spanish.