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Place dossier plate
SheetMN-FARIBAULT-MN · Faribault, MN 24,458 pop · income 38th pct · 16 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 Faribault
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Faribault on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Winona · lowest
56,163
Winona · lowest
56,163 median HH income
40.0% of the leader · rank #1
Faribault · this city
61,662
Faribault · this city
61,662 median HH income
43.9% of the leader · rank #2
Norris · near
61,667
Norris · near
61,667 median HH income
43.9% of the leader · rank #3
Little York · near
61,667
Little York · near
61,667 median HH income
43.9% of the leader · rank #4
Ackley · near
61,667
Ackley · near
61,667 median HH income
43.9% of the leader · rank #5
Allen · near
61,667
Allen · near
61,667 median HH income
43.9% of the leader · rank #6
Decatur · highest
140,480
Decatur · highest
140,480 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 Faribault 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: 24,458.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Faribault - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Faribault lands in the 38th percentile for household income and the 48th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
38th
percentile, household income
52nd
percentile, home value
36th
percentile, median rent
48th
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: Faribault, MN
24,458 people live in Faribault, Minnesota - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Faribault households earn a median of $61,662 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 11.1%. Home values in Faribault run a median of $233,900, and the median resident age is 38.4 years. About 17.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 53.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 28 residential building permits were authorized in Faribault (Construction Slowdown), down 54% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Faribault reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1436.8 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Faribault's yearly average temperature at 44.5°F with 35.5 inches of precipitation per year and 43.3 inches of snowfall.
Minnesota tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: the state registers 98.6 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,125 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Minnesota's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). The average commute for Faribault workers runs 18.6 minutes, with 71.6% driving alone and 5.3% working from home. 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 Faribault'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 schools and households to reported crime to climate and hazard context to comparison shortlist to work and mobility 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 Faribault, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Faribault?
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 11.1%, 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 education layer cover for Faribault?
The NCES join finds 17 public schools within the city match. 17.5% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Faribault?
Within Minnesota, the closest population matches are White Bear Lake (24,026 residents, $79,712 income); Farmington (23,675 residents, $118,556 income); Champlin (23,450 residents, $115,719 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Zion, IL (24,466 residents); Saginaw, TX (24,467 residents); Decatur, GA (24,470 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 16 Census tracts reveal inside Faribault?
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 16 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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Faribault?
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 1436.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 37% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1129.2
Violent rate
307.6
Total reported rate
1436.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 44.5°F, with 35.5 inches of precipitation and 43.3 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Minnesota is 42.4 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Mean temperature
44.5°F
Annual precipitation
35.5 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
42.4
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What does the journey to work look like in Faribault?
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 71.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.6 minutes.
Public transit
0.2%
Work from home
5.3%
Drive alone
71.6%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 10,331 workers age 16+.
Is Faribault growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +581 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 28 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
+2.4%
2025 estimate
25,040
2020 estimate
24,459
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 11.1% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
98.6 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Minnesota average
F
City profile score · Faribault, MN
36/100
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.
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.
Household income F
$61,662
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
11.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
308 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
17.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Faribault profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 46/100 (D) · 98.6 index
Household income: 37/100 (F) · $61,662
Poverty rate: 35/100 (F) · 11.1%
Violent crime: 32/100 (F) · 308 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 27/100 (F) · 17.5%
Where Faribault sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Faribault'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 - Faribault highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Faribault, MN (this city): home $233,900, crime 1,437/100k
Zion, IL : home $179,100, crime 1,446/100k
Saginaw, TX : home $270,300, crime 1,637/100k
Decatur, GA : home $655,900, crime 2,401/100k
Soledad, CA : home $571,600, crime 785/100k
White Bear Lake, MN : home $318,000, crime 1,411/100k
Farmington, MN : home $345,100, crime 413/100k
Champlin, MN : home $338,400, crime 1,252/100k
Winona, MN : home $193,500, crime 2,484/100k
New Brighton, MN : home $345,900, crime 1,312/100k
How does Faribault compare to other US cities?
Here's how Faribault stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income38% higher than other cities
Home value52% pricier than other cities
Median rent36% pricier than other cities
Safety48% 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: Faribault ranks #156 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 Faribault 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 Faribault near the bottom of Minnesota's cities
Among the 785 Minnesota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Faribault ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Faribault only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#501 of 775
35th percentile in Minnesota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 785
0th percentile in Minnesota
Median Home Value
#249 of 774
68th percentile in Minnesota
Poverty Rate
#163 of 785
79th percentile in Minnesota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#492 of 784
37th 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
38th percentile nationally for median household income · 48th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Faribault's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Faribault'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 Faribault's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$233,90048th percentilemore affordable than 48% 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
Faribault'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
#10,038 of 15,516
More affordable than 35% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,786 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.8×, Faribault sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,038 of 15,516 and #1,786 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$61,662Faribault, MN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Faribault, 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 Faribault, MN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)17.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)53.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
24,458
Median Income
$61,662
Median Home Value
$233,900
Median Age
38.4
Poverty Rate
11.1%
Labor force participation
53.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
17.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1436.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
307.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1129.2
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
44.5°F
Annual Precipitation
35.5"
Annual Snowfall
43.3"
Schools
Total Schools
17
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Faribault's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
24,459 residents
2021
24,459 residents
2022
24,726 residents
2023
24,631 residents
2024
24,920 residents
2025
25,040 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
28
housing units authorized
Single-Family
28
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
61
17
44
$7.8M
2020
1
1
0
$0.1M
2021
30
30
0
$7.9M
2022
25
25
0
$6.6M
2023
26
26
0
$6.9M
2024
28
28
0
$7.4M
Permit volume decreased 54% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.6 minutes
Drive Alone
71.6%
Carpool
17.6%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
2.3%
Work from Home
5.3%
Other
3.0%
Based on 10,331 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 Faribault. 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 Faribault 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 Faribault sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Faribault 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.