 As of the 2010 Census, Burien's population was 33,313, which is a 49.7% increase since incorporation in 1993.An annexation in 2010 increased the city's population significantly, and as of 2019 the population was an estimated 51,500.Settlement in the Burien area dates to 1864, when George Ouellet (1831–1899), a French-Canadian born in Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce, Quebec, purchased his first of several land patents for homestead sites directly from a federal land office.