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SheetMN-ISANTI-MN · Isanti, MN 7,023 pop · income 66th 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 Isanti
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Isanti on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Fort Pierce N… · lowest
36,707
Fort Pierce N… · lowest
36,707 median HH income
14.7% of the leader · rank #1
Lodi · near
84,402
Lodi · near
84,402 median HH income
33.8% of the leader · rank #2
Isanti · this city
84,412
Isanti · this city
84,412 median HH income
33.8% of the leader · rank #3
Beulah · near
84,417
Beulah · near
84,417 median HH income
33.8% of the leader · rank #4
Wolfdale · near
84,420
Wolfdale · near
84,420 median HH income
33.8% of the leader · rank #5
Earl · near
84,423
Earl · near
84,423 median HH income
33.8% of the leader · rank #6
Atherton · highest
250,001
Atherton · highest
250,001 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 Isanti 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: 7,023.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Isanti - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Isanti lands in the 66th percentile for household income and the 82nd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
66th
percentile, household income
59th
percentile, home value
36th
percentile, median rent
82nd
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: Isanti, MN
Isanti is a small town in Minnesota, home to 7,023 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Isanti report a median income of $84,412 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 3.2%. Home values in Isanti run a median of $264,600, and the median resident age is 33.8 years. About 19.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 75.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 61 residential building permits were authorized in Isanti (Construction Slowdown), down 26% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Isanti reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 570.3 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: the state registers 98.6 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. 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. 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 Isanti'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 housing and income to reported crime to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Isanti, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count.
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. Population change
Is Isanti 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 +815 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +11.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 61 housing units authorized in 2024. 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 Isanti?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.1 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Isanti?
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 570.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 75% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Isanti?
Within Minnesota, the closest population matches are St. Joseph (7,024 residents, $75,217 income); Spring Lake Park (6,997 residents, $77,112 income); Kasson (6,964 residents, $87,295 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Fort Pierce North, FL (7,023 residents); Morrilton, AR (7,022 residents); Atherton, CA (7,021 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Isanti?
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 76.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.4%
Work from home
12.7%
Drive alone
76.8%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 3,873 workers age 16+.
The NCES join finds 7 public schools within the city match. 19.9% 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 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
7
Bachelor's degree+
19.9%
Poverty estimate
3.2%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Minnesota average
C+
City profile score · Isanti, MN
61/100
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+
3.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B+
80 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income C+
$84,412
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
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
19.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Isanti profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 77/100 (B+) · 3.2%
Violent crime: 76/100 (B+) · 80 /100k
Household income: 64/100 (C+) · $84,412
Cost of living: 46/100 (D) · 98.6 index
Bachelor's+ share: 34/100 (F) · 19.9%
Where Isanti sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Isanti'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 - Isanti highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Isanti, MN (this city): home $264,600, crime 570/100k
Morrilton, AR : home $150,900, crime 3,347/100k
Atherton, CA : home $2,000,000+, crime 1,386/100k
Frostburg, MD : home $172,600, crime 115/100k
St. Joseph, MN : home $240,300, crime 567/100k
Spring Lake Park, MN : home $281,800, crime 2,098/100k
Kasson, MN : home $264,500, crime 513/100k
Medina, MN : home $660,800, crime 662/100k
Corcoran, MN : home $540,100, crime 520/100k
How does Isanti compare to other US cities?
Where Isanti sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income66% higher than other cities
Home value59% pricier than other cities
Median rent36% pricier than other cities
Safety82% 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, Isanti ranks #81 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 Isanti 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 Isanti near the bottom of Minnesota's cities
Among the 785 Minnesota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Isanti ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Isanti only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#232 of 775
70th percentile in Minnesota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 785
0th percentile in Minnesota
Median Home Value
#195 of 774
75th percentile in Minnesota
Poverty Rate
#523 of 785
33rd percentile in Minnesota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#410 of 784
47th 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
66th percentile nationally for median household income · 82nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Isanti's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Isanti'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 Isanti's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$264,60041st percentilemore affordable than 41% 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
Isanti's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,365 of 15,516
More affordable than 53% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,122 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.1×, Isanti sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,365 of 15,516 and #6,122 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
$84,412Isanti, MN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Isanti, 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 Isanti, MN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)19.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)75.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
7,023
Median Income
$84,412
Median Home Value
$264,600
Median Age
33.8
Poverty Rate
3.2%
Labor force participation
75.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
19.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
570.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
79.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
490.7
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
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Isanti's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,899 residents
2021
7,091 residents
2022
7,218 residents
2023
7,388 residents
2024
7,506 residents
2025
7,714 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
61
housing units authorized
Single-Family
33
detached homes
Multifamily
28
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
8.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
82
82
0
$15.7M
2020
86
86
0
$15.0M
2021
70
70
0
$12.8M
2022
62
62
0
$13.4M
2023
74
38
36
$19.0M
2024
61
33
28
$12.9M
Permit volume decreased 26% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
76.8%
Carpool
7.7%
Public Transit
0.4%
Walk
2.4%
Work from Home
12.7%
Based on 3,873 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 Isanti. 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 Isanti 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 Isanti sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Isanti 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.