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Place dossier plate
SheetMN-CHAMPLIN-MN · Champlin, MN 23,450 pop · income 86th 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 Champlin
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Champlin on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Brent · lowest
45,708
Brent · lowest
45,708 median HH income
32.8% of the leader · rank #1
Champlin · this city
115,719
Champlin · this city
115,719 median HH income
83.0% of the leader · rank #2
Middleburg · near
115,724
Middleburg · near
115,724 median HH income
83.0% of the leader · rank #3
Carmel-by-the… · near
115,729
Carmel-by-the… · near
115,729 median HH income
83.1% of the leader · rank #4
Woodway · near
115,729
Woodway · near
115,729 median HH income
83.1% of the leader · rank #5
West Falmouth · near
115,735
West Falmouth · near
115,735 median HH income
83.1% of the leader · rank #6
Eastmont · highest
139,346
Eastmont · highest
139,346 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 Champlin 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: 23,450.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Champlin - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Champlin places in the 86th percentile for household income and the 54th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
86th
percentile, household income
70th
percentile, home value
36th
percentile, median rent
54th
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: Champlin, MN
23,450 people live in Champlin, Minnesota - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Champlin brings in $115,719 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.2%. Home values in Champlin run a median of $338,400, and the median resident age is 41.1 years. About 36.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 71.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 15 residential building permits were authorized in Champlin (Construction Slowdown), down 65% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Champlin reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1251.6 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects 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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,125 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Minnesota's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). Commute times here average 21.7 minutes, with 73.3% driving alone and 15.6% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 42.4 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Champlin'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 work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist to reported crime to schools and households to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Champlin, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Champlin?
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 73.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.7 minutes.
How far does income reach against housing in Champlin?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.2%, 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 Champlin?
Within Minnesota, the closest population matches are Farmington (23,675 residents, $118,556 income); New Brighton (22,900 residents, $87,272 income); White Bear Lake (24,026 residents, $79,712 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Rosemont, CA (23,448 residents); Cherry Hill, VA (23,443 residents); Brent, FL (23,441 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 the FBI record say about safety in Champlin?
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 1251.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 45% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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 Champlin?
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 36.6% 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
5
Bachelor's degree+
36.6%
Poverty estimate
3.2%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Champlin growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -728 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 15 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
-3.1%
2025 estimate
23,125
2020 estimate
23,853
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Minnesota average
B-
City profile score · Champlin, MN
69/100
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.
Household income A-
$115,719
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B+
3.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B-
36.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime B-
115 /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.
Champlin profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 84/100 (A-) · $115,719
Poverty rate: 77/100 (B+) · 3.2%
Bachelor's+ share: 69/100 (B-) · 36.6%
Violent crime: 67/100 (B-) · 115 /100k
Cost of living: 46/100 (D) · 98.6 index
Where Champlin sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Champlin'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 - Champlin highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Champlin, MN (this city): home $338,400, crime 1,252/100k
Blue Island, IL : home $169,800, crime 3,121/100k
Lisle, IL : home $407,000, crime 498/100k
Farmington, MN : home $345,100, crime 413/100k
New Brighton, MN : home $345,900, crime 1,312/100k
White Bear Lake, MN : home $318,000, crime 1,411/100k
Crystal, MN : home $280,500, crime 2,505/100k
Faribault, MN : home $233,900, crime 1,437/100k
Hastings, MN : home $294,100, crime 1,113/100k
How does Champlin compare to other US cities?
Champlin measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income86% higher than other cities
Home value70% pricier than other cities
Median rent36% pricier than other cities
Safety54% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Minnesota and the picture shifts: Champlin ranks #140 of 229 Minnesota cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Champlin 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 Champlin near the bottom of Minnesota's cities
Among the 785 Minnesota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Champlin ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Champlin only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#78 of 775
90th percentile in Minnesota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 785
0th percentile in Minnesota
Median Home Value
#107 of 774
86th percentile in Minnesota
Poverty Rate
#523 of 785
33rd percentile in Minnesota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#138 of 784
82nd 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
86th percentile nationally for median household income · 54th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Champlin's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Champlin'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 Champlin's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$338,40030th percentilemore affordable than 30% 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
Champlin's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,277 of 15,516
More affordable than 60% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#803 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.9×, Champlin sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,277 of 15,516 and #803 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$115,719Champlin, MN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Champlin, 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 Champlin, MN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)36.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)71.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
23,450
Median Income
$115,719
Median Home Value
$338,400
Median Age
41.1
Poverty Rate
3.2%
Labor force participation
71.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
36.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1251.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
115.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1136.2
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
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Champlin's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
23,853 residents
2021
23,451 residents
2022
23,143 residents
2023
22,941 residents
2024
23,103 residents
2025
23,125 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
15
housing units authorized
Single-Family
15
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
43
43
0
$11.9M
2020
47
47
0
$12.2M
2021
60
60
0
$21.1M
2022
46
46
0
$17.5M
2023
55
15
40
$15.5M
2024
15
15
0
$6.3M
Permit volume decreased 65% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.7 minutes
Drive Alone
73.3%
Carpool
8.1%
Public Transit
1.3%
Walk
0.3%
Work from Home
15.6%
Other
1.4%
Based on 13,035 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 Champlin. 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 Champlin 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 Champlin sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Champlin 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.