Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Richfield, MN

Richfield is a city in Hennepin County, directly south of Minneapolis, and is known as Minnesota's oldest suburb, with settlement dating back to the early 1850s.

Richfield was named for the rich farmland that once underlay what are now its houses, streets, offices, parks and schools.

Richfield once stretched as far north as Lake Street in Minneapolis, but a series of annexations by Minneapolis and neighboring communities shrank it to its present size of about seven square miles.

The 2020 census counted 36,994 people in Richfield.

Census Bureau figures for 2020-2024 put Richfield at about 16,547 households, and only about 61.6% of its homes are owner-occupied, a low share for a Minnesota suburb.

Richfield's population boomed after World War II as returning veterans moved in, growing from under 10,000 people in 1940 to over 42,000 in 1960 and peaking at almost 50,000 in 1970.

Richfield is home to the corporate headquarters of Best Buy, the largest consumer electronics retailer in the United States, which moved its headquarters there in 2003 and is the city's largest employer.

When the Hub shopping center at 66th Street and Nicollet Avenue opened in 1954 with 32 stores, it was the largest planned shopping center in the Twin Cities.

Richfield's Wood Lake Nature Center is a 150-acre preserve of wetlands and woods that opened in 1971 as one of the first urban nature centers in the United States.

Richfield has more than 460 acres of parkland, including 23 neighborhood parks in addition to the Wood Lake preserve.