Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Bloomington, MN

Bloomington had 89,987 residents in the 2020 census, making it Minnesota's fourth-largest city and the largest suburb in the Twin Cities metro.

Bloomington sits on the north bank of the Minnesota River just above its confluence with the Mississippi River, about 10 miles south of downtown Minneapolis.

Bloomington was founded in 1843, when Peter and Louisa Quinn built a cabin along the Minnesota River and became the area's first European settlers.

In 1839 the Mdewakanton Sioux chief Cloud Man moved his band from Bde Maka Ska to Oak Grove in what is now southern Bloomington, where a village stood before permanent European settlement.

Bloomington was incorporated as a town on May 11, 1858, took its name from Bloomington, Illinois, and later adopted a city charter that voters approved on November 8, 1960.

Bloomington is home to the Mall of America, which opened on August 11, 1992 as the largest shopping mall in the United States, with more than 500 stores and over 40 million visitors a year.

The Mall of America was built on the former site of Metropolitan Stadium, where the Minnesota Twins and Vikings played their final game on September 30, 1981, and its center holds Nickelodeon Universe, the largest indoor theme park in the United States.

Bloomington's Mall of America tenants combined are the city's largest private-sector employer, accounting for about 13,000 jobs, and the city has more jobs per capita than either Minneapolis or Saint Paul.

Bloomington counted about 37,600 households in Census Bureau survey data for 2020-2024, with an owner-occupied housing rate of about 65.7%.

Bloomington's old Met Center arena was demolished in 1994, and an IKEA store opened on the west end of that site in 2004; the Water Park of America, then the ninth-largest indoor waterpark in the country, opened nearby in May 2006.