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Place dossier plate
SheetMN-BLOOMINGTON-MN · Bloomington, MN 88,838 pop · income 71st pct · 329 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Bloomington
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Bloomington on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Greenville · lowest
50,564
Greenville · lowest
50,564 median HH income
27.3% of the leader · rank #1
Midway CDP (S… · near
90,662
Midway CDP (S… · near
90,662 median HH income
49.0% of the leader · rank #2
Painted Hills · near
90,662
Painted Hills · near
90,662 median HH income
49.0% of the leader · rank #3
Richmond Heig… · near
90,670
Richmond Heig… · near
90,670 median HH income
49.0% of the leader · rank #4
Bloomington · this city
90,677
Bloomington · this city
90,677 median HH income
49.0% of the leader · rank #5
Virginia Beach · near
90,685
Virginia Beach · near
90,685 median HH income
49.0% of the leader · rank #6
Newton · highest
184,989
Newton · highest
184,989 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Bloomington on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 88,838.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Bloomington - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Bloomington places in the 71st percentile for household income and the 9th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
71st
percentile, household income
71st
percentile, home value
36th
percentile, median rent
9th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Bloomington, MN
Bloomington is a small city in Minnesota, home to 88,838 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Bloomington report a median income of $90,677 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.6%. Bloomington's housing stock carries a median value of $346,200, and the median resident age is 40.8 years. Educational attainment runs 45.3% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 65.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 342 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Slowing), down 10% from five years earlier. Bloomington's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 3776.1 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Minnesota tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Minnesota scores 98.6 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,125 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Minnesota run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 42.4 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Bloomington's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from housing and income to work and mobility to schools and households to comparison shortlist to reported crime to population change to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Bloomington, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, commute-mode shares, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Bloomington?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
What does the journey to work look like in Bloomington?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 66.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Bloomington?
Within Minnesota, the closest population matches are Duluth (86,863 residents, $66,263 income); Brooklyn Park (84,349 residents, $85,964 income); Plymouth (79,526 residents, $133,865 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Champaign, IL (88,822 residents); Waukegan, IL (88,919 residents); Greenville, NC (88,540 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
What can 329 Census tracts reveal inside Bloomington?
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
PlainCities matches 329 Census tracts to this city.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Bloomington?
The NCES join finds 26 public schools within the city match. 45.3% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
Matched public schools
26
Bachelor's degree+
45.3%
Poverty estimate
5.6%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Bloomington?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3776.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 66% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
3464.3
Violent rate
311.8
Total reported rate
3776.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Bloomington growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -808 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 342 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
-0.9%
2025 estimate
89,034
2020 estimate
89,842
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 5.6% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
98.6 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Minnesota average
C
City profile score · Bloomington, MN
57/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share A-
45.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B
$90,677
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living D
98.6 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime F
312 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bloomington profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 80/100 (A-) · 45.3%
Household income: 70/100 (B) · $90,677
Poverty rate: 62/100 (C+) · 5.6%
Cost of living: 46/100 (D) · 98.6 index
Violent crime: 31/100 (F) · 312 /100k
Where Bloomington sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Bloomington's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Bloomington highlighted among 13 peers.Read the chart values
Bloomington, MN (this city): home $346,200, crime 3,776/100k
Champaign, IL : home $199,700, crime 2,781/100k
Waukegan, IL : home $177,600, crime 2,060/100k
Greenville, NC : home $213,100, crime 3,367/100k
San Leandro, CA : home $813,600, crime 4,472/100k
Newton, MA : home $1,202,500, crime 648/100k
Clifton, NJ : home $444,300, crime 2,431/100k
Duluth, MN : home $225,700, crime 3,174/100k
Brooklyn Park, MN : home $313,500, crime 2,770/100k
Plymouth, MN : home $474,700, crime 1,075/100k
Woodbury, MN : home $434,900, crime 1,279/100k
Lakeville, MN : home $425,200, crime 648/100k
Blaine, MN : home $327,500, crime 1,500/100k
How does Bloomington compare to other US cities?
Here's how Bloomington stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income71% higher than other cities
Home value71% pricier than other cities
Median rent36% pricier than other cities
Safety9% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Minnesota alone, Bloomington ranks #223 of 229 Minnesota cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Bloomington against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Minnesota only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Minnesota-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Bloomington near the bottom of Minnesota's cities
Among the 785 Minnesota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Bloomington ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Bloomington only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#182 of 775
77th percentile in Minnesota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 785
0th percentile in Minnesota
Median Home Value
#99 of 774
87th percentile in Minnesota
Poverty Rate
#378 of 785
51st percentile in Minnesota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#77 of 784
90th percentile in Minnesota
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Minnesota only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
71st percentile nationally for median household income · 9th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Bloomington's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Bloomington's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Bloomington's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$346,20029th percentilemore affordable than 29% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Bloomington's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,122 of 15,516
More affordable than 35% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#285 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.8×, Bloomington sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,122 of 15,516 and #285 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$90,677Bloomington, MN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Bloomington, MN median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Bloomington, MN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)45.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
88,838
Median Income
$90,677
Median Home Value
$346,200
Median Age
40.8
Poverty Rate
5.6%
Labor force participation
65.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
45.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3776.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
311.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3464.3
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
26
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Bloomington's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
89,842 residents
2021
89,454 residents
2022
87,821 residents
2023
87,757 residents
2024
88,401 residents
2025
89,034 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
342
housing units authorized
Single-Family
6
detached homes
Multifamily
336
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
378
3
375
$67.5M
2020
739
4
735
$113.2M
2021
74
6
68
$12.8M
2022
555
2
553
$118.0M
2023
371
4
367
$74.6M
2024
342
6
336
$83.2M
Permit volume decreased 10% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
66.6%
Carpool
7.0%
Public Transit
3.7%
Walk
1.3%
Work from Home
19.6%
Other
1.8%
Based on 47,162 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Minnesota statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Minnesota at $225 (electricity about $95 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are Minnesota statewide averages, not a meter reading for Bloomington. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Minnesota's BEA cost-of-living index is 98.6 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Bloomington is $1,125/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Minnesota statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 42.4 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Minnesota statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Bloomington sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Bloomington compares to similar-size Minnesota cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.