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Place dossier plate
SheetMN-CANNON-FALLS-MN · Cannon Falls, MN 4,216 pop · income 62nd pct
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 Cannon Falls
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Cannon Falls on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Park Rapids · lowest
45,800
Park Rapids · lowest
45,800 median HH income
25.1% of the leader · rank #1
Belcher · near
80,500
Belcher · near
80,500 median HH income
44.2% of the leader · rank #2
Absecon Highl… · near
80,511
Absecon Highl… · near
80,511 median HH income
44.2% of the leader · rank #3
Cannon Falls · this city
80,515
Cannon Falls · this city
80,515 median HH income
44.2% of the leader · rank #4
Bergen · near
80,521
Bergen · near
80,521 median HH income
44.2% of the leader · rank #5
Pioneer · near
80,526
Pioneer · near
80,526 median HH income
44.2% of the leader · rank #6
Mirrormont · highest
182,283
Mirrormont · highest
182,283 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 Cannon Falls 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: 4,216.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Cannon Falls - the verdict
Cannon Falls ranks in the 62nd percentile for household income and the 56th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
62nd
percentile, household income
58th
percentile, home value
36th
percentile, median rent
56th
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: Cannon Falls, MN
4,216 people live in Cannon Falls, Minnesota - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Cannon Falls households earn a median of $80,515 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 3.4%. Home values in Cannon Falls run a median of $262,100, and the median resident age is 45.3 years. Educational attainment runs 21.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 65.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Cannon Falls reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1191.6 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
Minnesota tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Minnesota at 98.6 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,125 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Minnesota, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 42.4 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Cannon Falls'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 schools and households to population change to housing and income to comparison shortlist to reported crime to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Cannon Falls, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Cannon Falls?
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 21.9% 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 matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
Is Cannon Falls 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 -4 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.1% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
How far does income reach against housing in Cannon Falls?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.4%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Cannon Falls?
Within Minnesota, the closest population matches are Columbus (4,211 residents, $117,917 income); Park Rapids (4,226 residents, $45,800 income); Le Sueur (4,204 residents, $71,563 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Watertown, CT (4,215 residents); Lyons, GA (4,217 residents); Broken Bow, OK (4,215 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.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Cannon Falls?
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 1191.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 48% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1048.6
Violent rate
143.0
Total reported rate
1191.6
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Cannon Falls?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 81.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.7%
Work from home
6.5%
Drive alone
81.8%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 2,331 workers age 16+.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Minnesota average
C
City profile score · Cannon Falls, 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.
Poverty rate B+
3.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income C+
$80,515
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime C+
143 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Bachelor's+ share D
21.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cannon Falls profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 76/100 (B+) · 3.4%
Household income: 60/100 (C+) · $80,515
Violent crime: 60/100 (C+) · 143 /100k
Cost of living: 46/100 (D) · 98.6 index
Bachelor's+ share: 40/100 (D) · 21.9%
Where Cannon Falls sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Cannon Falls'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 - Cannon Falls highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Cannon Falls, MN (this city): home $262,100, crime 1,192/100k
Watertown, CT : home $278,500, crime 1,164/100k
Broken Bow, OK : home $159,000, crime 4,924/100k
Mount Pleasant, PA : home $131,700, crime 24/100k
Surfside Beach, SC : home $412,100, crime 2,079/100k
Park Rapids, MN : home $218,500, crime 2,530/100k
Le Sueur, MN : home $216,700, crime 260/100k
Goodview, MN : home $215,200, crime 25/100k
How does Cannon Falls compare to other US cities?
Here's how Cannon Falls stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income62% higher than other cities
Home value58% pricier than other cities
Median rent36% pricier than other cities
Safety56% 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, Cannon Falls ranks #136 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 Cannon Falls 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 Cannon Falls near the bottom of Minnesota's cities
Among the 785 Minnesota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Cannon Falls ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Cannon Falls only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#256 of 775
67th percentile in Minnesota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 785
0th percentile in Minnesota
Median Home Value
#198 of 774
74th percentile in Minnesota
Poverty Rate
#509 of 785
34th percentile in Minnesota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#349 of 784
55th 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
62nd percentile nationally for median household income · 56th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Cannon Falls's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Cannon Falls'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 Cannon Falls's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$262,10042nd percentilemore affordable than 42% 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
Cannon Falls's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,930 of 15,516
More affordable than 49% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,515 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.3×, Cannon Falls sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,930 of 15,516 and #6,515 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$80,515Cannon Falls, MN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Cannon Falls, 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 Cannon Falls, MN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)21.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
4,216
Median Income
$80,515
Median Home Value
$262,100
Median Age
45.3
Poverty Rate
3.4%
Labor force participation
65.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
21.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1191.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
143.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1048.6
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
2
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Cannon Falls's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
4,213 residents
2021
4,238 residents
2022
4,220 residents
2023
4,209 residents
2024
4,206 residents
2025
4,209 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
81.8%
Carpool
5.7%
Public Transit
0.7%
Walk
4.4%
Work from Home
6.5%
Other
0.9%
Based on 2,331 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 Cannon Falls. 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 Cannon Falls 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 Cannon Falls sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Cannon Falls 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 ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.