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Place dossier plate
SheetMN-HIBBING-MN · Hibbing, MN 16,100 pop · income 28th pct · 75 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 Hibbing
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Hibbing on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Opa-locka · lowest
31,680
Opa-locka · lowest
31,680 median HH income
26.4% of the leader · rank #1
Hibbing · this city
55,463
Hibbing · this city
55,463 median HH income
46.2% of the leader · rank #2
Southside · near
55,469
Southside · near
55,469 median HH income
46.2% of the leader · rank #3
Southgate · near
55,469
Southgate · near
55,469 median HH income
46.2% of the leader · rank #4
Sarepta · near
55,469
Sarepta · near
55,469 median HH income
46.2% of the leader · rank #5
Dutton · near
55,469
Dutton · near
55,469 median HH income
46.2% of the leader · rank #6
Ripon · highest
120,061
Ripon · highest
120,061 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 Hibbing 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: 16,100.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Hibbing - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Hibbing places in the 28th percentile for household income and the 75th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
28th
percentile, household income
19th
percentile, home value
36th
percentile, median rent
75th
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: Hibbing, MN
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 16,100 residents in Hibbing, a small town within Minnesota. Hibbing households earn a median of $55,463 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.0%. Hibbing's housing stock carries a median value of $123,900, and the median resident age is 43.0 years. 18.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 55.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 10 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Slowing), down 9% from five years earlier. Hibbing reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 728.9 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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Minnesota run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Commute times here average 16.4 minutes, with 83.7% driving alone and 3.8% working from home, per Census ACS commuting 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 Hibbing'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 comparison shortlist to within-city variation to work and mobility to reported crime to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Hibbing, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Hibbing?
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.
The NCES join finds 6 public schools within the city match. 18.9% 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -351 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 10 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Hibbing?
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.
Within Minnesota, the closest population matches are Hugo (16,076 residents, $114,057 income); Buffalo (16,388 residents, $88,306 income); Ham Lake (16,575 residents, $116,845 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Opa-locka, FL (16,097 residents); Easthampton, MA (16,103 residents); Glasgow, DE (16,095 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.
PlainCities matches 75 Census tracts to this city.
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.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Hibbing?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 83.7%. The reported mean trip to work is 16.4 minutes.
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.
Drive alone
83.7%
Work from home
3.8%
Public transit
0.4%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 7,213 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Hibbing?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 728.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 68% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Total reported rate
728.9
Violent rate
62.8
Property rate
666.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Hibbing?
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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.2×
Home value
$123,900
Household income
$55,463
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 7.0% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
98.6 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Minnesota average
D
City profile score · Hibbing, MN
47/100
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.
Violent crime A-
63 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate C-
7.0%
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.
Bachelor's+ share F
18.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$55,463
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Hibbing profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 80/100 (A-) · 63 /100k
Poverty rate: 53/100 (C-) · 7.0%
Cost of living: 46/100 (D) · 98.6 index
Bachelor's+ share: 31/100 (F) · 18.9%
Household income: 28/100 (F) · $55,463
Where Hibbing sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Hibbing'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 - Hibbing highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Hibbing, MN (this city): home $123,900, crime 729/100k
Easthampton, MA : home $343,800, crime 670/100k
Gardendale, AL : home $234,900, crime 1,785/100k
Ripon, CA : home $666,400, crime 1,034/100k
Buffalo, MN : home $281,900, crime 475/100k
Red Wing, MN : home $224,800, crime 2,355/100k
Bemidji, MN : home $189,500, crime 5,400/100k
Hutchinson, MN : home $210,300, crime 1,412/100k
How does Hibbing compare to other US cities?
Where Hibbing sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income28% higher than other cities
Home value19% pricier than other cities
Median rent36% pricier than other cities
Safety75% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Minnesota, Hibbing ranks #106 of 229 Minnesota cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Hibbing 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 Hibbing near the bottom of Minnesota's cities
Among the 785 Minnesota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Hibbing ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Hibbing only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#590 of 775
24th percentile in Minnesota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 785
0th percentile in Minnesota
Median Home Value
#551 of 774
29th percentile in Minnesota
Poverty Rate
#309 of 785
60th percentile in Minnesota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#448 of 784
42nd 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
28th percentile nationally for median household income · 75th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Hibbing's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Hibbing'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 Hibbing's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$123,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 81% 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
Hibbing's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,632 of 15,516
More affordable than 83% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#169 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.2×, Hibbing sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,632 of 15,516 and #169 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
$55,463Hibbing, MN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Hibbing, 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 Hibbing, MN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)18.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
16,100
Median Income
$55,463
Median Home Value
$123,900
Median Age
43.0
Poverty Rate
7.0%
Labor force participation
55.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
18.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
728.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
62.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
666.0
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
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Hibbing's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
16,174 residents
2021
16,099 residents
2022
16,065 residents
2023
15,986 residents
2024
15,910 residents
2025
15,823 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
10
housing units authorized
Single-Family
10
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
11
11
0
$2.1M
2020
12
12
0
$2.3M
2021
7
7
0
$1.6M
2022
6
6
0
$1.5M
2023
13
13
0
$2.0M
2024
10
10
0
$3.3M
Permit volume decreased 9% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
16.4 minutes
Drive Alone
83.7%
Carpool
8.0%
Public Transit
0.4%
Walk
3.2%
Work from Home
3.8%
Other
0.9%
Based on 7,213 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 Hibbing. 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 Hibbing 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 Hibbing sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Hibbing 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.