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SheetMN-KASSON-MN · Kasson, MN 6,964 pop · income 68th pct · 5 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 Kasson
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Kasson on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Perry · lowest
44,815
Perry · lowest
44,815 median HH income
20.4% of the leader · rank #1
Madison · near
87,292
Madison · near
87,292 median HH income
39.8% of the leader · rank #2
Fallbrook · near
87,293
Fallbrook · near
87,293 median HH income
39.8% of the leader · rank #3
Kasson · this city
87,295
Kasson · this city
87,295 median HH income
39.8% of the leader · rank #4
Hartland · near
87,297
Hartland · near
87,297 median HH income
39.8% of the leader · rank #5
Omao · near
87,308
Omao · near
87,308 median HH income
39.8% of the leader · rank #6
Medina · highest
219,181
Medina · highest
219,181 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 Kasson 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: 6,964.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Kasson - the verdict
Nationally, Kasson sits in the 68th percentile for household income and the 85th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
68th
percentile, household income
59th
percentile, home value
36th
percentile, median rent
85th
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: Kasson, MN
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 6,964 residents in Kasson, a small town within Minnesota. Kasson households earn a median of $87,295 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 1.1%. Kasson's housing stock carries a median value of $264,500, and the median resident age is 33.6 years. 38.4% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 69.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 76 residential building permits were authorized in Kasson (Building Boom), up 130% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Kasson reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 513.3 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. 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). FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 42.4 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Kasson'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 within-city variation to reported crime to schools and households to population change to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Kasson, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What can 5 Census tracts reveal inside Kasson?
PlainCities matches 5 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Kasson?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 513.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 77% 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.
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 7 public schools within the city match. 38.4% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Kasson?
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 Spring Lake Park (6,997 residents, $77,112 income); Isanti (7,023 residents, $84,412 income); St. Joseph (7,024 residents, $75,217 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Perry, FL (6,965 residents); Stratford, NJ (6,965 residents); Sudden Valley, WA (6,963 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.
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.
Population change
Is Kasson growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +451 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +6.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 76 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.
2020 estimate
6,899
2025 estimate
7,350
Period change
+6.5%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Kasson?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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
74.8%
Work from home
8.5%
Public transit
1.7%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 3,468 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Kasson?
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 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.0×
Home value
$264,500
Household income
$87,295
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above median income · poverty 1.1% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
98.6 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Minnesota average
B-
City profile score · Kasson, 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.
Poverty rate A+
1.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B
38.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime B
97 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income B-
$87,295
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.
Kasson profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 92/100 (A+) · 1.1%
Bachelor's+ share: 72/100 (B) · 38.4%
Violent crime: 71/100 (B) · 97 /100k
Household income: 67/100 (B-) · $87,295
Cost of living: 46/100 (D) · 98.6 index
Where Kasson sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Kasson'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 - Kasson highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Kasson, MN (this city): home $264,500, crime 513/100k
Stratford, NJ : home $238,200, crime 1,243/100k
Topsham, ME : home $341,800, crime 999/100k
Mountainside, NJ : home $755,600, crime 355/100k
Spring Lake Park, MN : home $281,800, crime 2,098/100k
Isanti, MN : home $264,600, crime 570/100k
St. Joseph, MN : home $240,300, crime 567/100k
Medina, MN : home $660,800, crime 662/100k
Corcoran, MN : home $540,100, crime 520/100k
How does Kasson compare to other US cities?
Here's how Kasson stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income68% higher than other cities
Home value59% pricier than other cities
Median rent36% pricier than other cities
Safety85% 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, Kasson ranks #70 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 Kasson 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 Kasson near the bottom of Minnesota's cities
Among the 785 Minnesota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Kasson ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Kasson only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#202 of 775
74th percentile in Minnesota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 785
0th percentile in Minnesota
Median Home Value
#196 of 774
75th percentile in Minnesota
Poverty Rate
#660 of 785
15th percentile in Minnesota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#121 of 784
84th 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
68th percentile nationally for median household income · 85th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Kasson's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Kasson'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 Kasson's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$264,50041st 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
Kasson's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#6,862 of 15,516
More affordable than 56% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,776 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.0×, Kasson sits in the moderate band:
national rank #6,862 of 15,516 and #5,776 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
$87,295Kasson, MN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Kasson, 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 Kasson, MN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)38.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)69.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,964
Median Income
$87,295
Median Home Value
$264,500
Median Age
33.6
Poverty Rate
1.1%
Labor force participation
69.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
38.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
513.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
97.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
416.2
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
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Kasson's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,899 residents
2021
6,965 residents
2022
7,039 residents
2023
7,152 residents
2024
7,220 residents
2025
7,350 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
76
housing units authorized
Single-Family
28
detached homes
Multifamily
48
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
10.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
33
33
0
$5.7M
2020
41
41
0
$7.2M
2021
50
44
6
$9.1M
2022
89
41
48
$17.5M
2023
21
21
0
$3.8M
2024
76
28
48
$15.7M
Permit volume increased 130% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.8%
Carpool
14.7%
Public Transit
1.7%
Walk
0.3%
Work from Home
8.5%
Based on 3,468 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 Kasson. 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 Kasson 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 Kasson sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Kasson 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.