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SheetMN-INVER-GROVE-HEIGHTS-MN · Inver Grove Heights, MN 35,772 pop · income 80th 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 Inver Grove Heights
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Inver Grove Heights on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Marion · lowest
45,829
Marion · lowest
45,829 median HH income
22.9% of the leader · rank #1
Ellerslie · near
104,040
Ellerslie · near
104,040 median HH income
52.0% of the leader · rank #2
Northfield · near
104,042
Northfield · near
104,042 median HH income
52.0% of the leader · rank #3
Occidental · near
104,044
Occidental · near
104,044 median HH income
52.0% of the leader · rank #4
Crocker · near
104,049
Crocker · near
104,049 median HH income
52.0% of the leader · rank #5
Inver Grove H… · this city
104,055
Inver Grove H… · this city
104,055 median HH income
52.0% of the leader · rank #6
Parkland · highest
200,156
Parkland · highest
200,156 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 Inver Grove Heights 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: 35,772.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Inver Grove Heights - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Inver Grove Heights places in the 80th percentile for household income and the 44th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
80th
percentile, household income
72nd
percentile, home value
36th
percentile, median rent
44th
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: Inver Grove Heights, MN
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 35,772 residents in Inver Grove Heights, a small city within Minnesota. Inver Grove Heights households earn a median of $104,055 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.7%. Inver Grove Heights's housing stock carries a median value of $352,300, and the median resident age is 41.1 years. Educational attainment runs 43.1% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 68.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 315 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 116% from five years earlier. Inver Grove Heights reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1560.3 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: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Minnesota scores 98.6 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,125 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Minnesota run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Commute times here average 18.0 minutes, with 67.2% driving alone and 21.8% 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 Inver Grove Heights'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 population change to comparison shortlist to schools and households to reported crime to housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Inver Grove Heights, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count, 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.
Question 1
Is Inver Grove Heights growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,049 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 315 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 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Inver Grove Heights?
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 Roseville (35,905 residents, $88,440 income); Richfield (36,725 residents, $84,055 income); Andover (32,825 residents, $131,528 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Marion, OH (35,771 residents); Norristown, PA (35,782 residents); Plainfield, IN (35,783 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.
What does the education layer cover for Inver Grove Heights?
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 10 public schools within the city match. 43.1% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Inver Grove Heights?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1560.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 32% 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.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Inver Grove Heights?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.4×
Home value
$352,300
Household income
$104,055
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Inver Grove Heights?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 67.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.0 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. 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.
Drive alone
67.2%
Work from home
21.8%
Public transit
2.3%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 19,493 workers age 16+.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Minnesota average
B-
City profile score · Inver Grove Heights, MN
68/100
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 A-
2.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income B+
$104,055
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
43.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime C-
166 /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.
Inver Grove Heights profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 81/100 (A-) · 2.7%
Household income: 79/100 (B+) · $104,055
Bachelor's+ share: 78/100 (B+) · 43.1%
Violent crime: 54/100 (C-) · 166 /100k
Cost of living: 46/100 (D) · 98.6 index
Where Inver Grove Heights sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Inver Grove Heights'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 - Inver Grove Heights highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Inver Grove Heights, MN (this city): home $352,300, crime 1,560/100k
Marion, OH : home $105,900, crime 1,767/100k
Norristown, PA : home $205,100, crime 2,410/100k
Plainfield, IN : home $263,900, crime 1,694/100k
Franklin, WI : home $343,400, crime 1,258/100k
Temple City, CA : home $930,200, crime 1,275/100k
Roseville, MN : home $334,800, crime 8,897/100k
Richfield, MN : home $320,400, crime 2,728/100k
Brooklyn Center, MN : home $261,100, crime 3,368/100k
Savage, MN : home $395,600, crime 794/100k
Cottage Grove, MN : home $359,600, crime 721/100k
How does Inver Grove Heights compare to other US cities?
Where Inver Grove Heights sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income80% higher than other cities
Home value72% pricier than other cities
Median rent36% pricier than other cities
Safety44% 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, Inver Grove Heights ranks #163 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 Inver Grove Heights 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 Inver Grove Heights near the bottom of Minnesota's cities
Among the 785 Minnesota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Inver Grove Heights ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Inver Grove Heights only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#105 of 775
86th percentile in Minnesota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 785
0th percentile in Minnesota
Median Home Value
#92 of 774
88th percentile in Minnesota
Poverty Rate
#556 of 785
28th percentile in Minnesota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#88 of 784
89th 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
80th percentile nationally for median household income · 44th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Inver Grove Heights's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Inver Grove Heights'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 Inver Grove Heights's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$352,30028th percentilemore affordable than 28% 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
Inver Grove Heights's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,518 of 15,516
More affordable than 45% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,386 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.4×, Inver Grove Heights sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,518 of 15,516 and #1,386 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
$104,055Inver Grove Heights, MN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Inver Grove Heights, 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 Inver Grove Heights, MN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)43.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)68.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
35,772
Median Income
$104,055
Median Home Value
$352,300
Median Age
41.1
Poverty Rate
2.7%
Labor force participation
68.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
43.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1560.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
165.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1394.6
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
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Inver Grove Heights's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
35,824 residents
2021
35,633 residents
2022
35,754 residents
2023
36,200 residents
2024
36,271 residents
2025
36,873 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
315
housing units authorized
Single-Family
64
detached homes
Multifamily
251
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
8.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
146
106
40
$44.7M
2020
30
30
0
$12.0M
2021
311
135
176
$70.9M
2022
236
187
49
$59.4M
2023
97
77
20
$29.5M
2024
315
64
251
$73.5M
Permit volume increased 116% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.0 minutes
Drive Alone
67.2%
Carpool
5.6%
Public Transit
2.3%
Walk
1.5%
Work from Home
21.8%
Other
1.6%
Based on 19,493 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 Inver Grove Heights. 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 Inver Grove Heights 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 Inver Grove Heights sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Inver Grove Heights 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.