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Place dossier plate
SheetMN-LAKEVILLE-MN · Lakeville, MN 72,480 pop · income 92nd pct · 106 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 Lakeville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lakeville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Gulfport · lowest
46,044
Gulfport · lowest
46,044 median HH income
33.3% of the leader · rank #1
Santa Venetia · near
138,085
Santa Venetia · near
138,085 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
Hiddenite · near
138,098
Hiddenite · near
138,098 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #3
Lakeville · this city
138,119
Lakeville · this city
138,119 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #4
Shoreham · near
138,125
Shoreham · near
138,125 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Bowles · highest
138,167
Bowles · highest
138,167 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
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 Lakeville 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: 72,480.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Lakeville - the verdict
Nationally, Lakeville sits in the 92nd percentile for household income and the 79th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
92nd
percentile, household income
79th
percentile, home value
36th
percentile, median rent
79th
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: Lakeville, MN
72,480 people live in Lakeville, Minnesota - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Lakeville report a median income of $138,119 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.0%. Lakeville's housing stock carries a median value of $425,200, and the median resident age is 36.9 years. 50.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 73.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 523 residential building permits were authorized in Lakeville (Construction Slowdown), down 45% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Lakeville reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 647.7 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not 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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Minnesota run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Lakeville'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 work and mobility to within-city variation to population change to reported crime to comparison shortlist to housing and income to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lakeville, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Lakeville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 68.5%. 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. 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.
What can 106 Census tracts reveal inside Lakeville?
PlainCities matches 106 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.
Is Lakeville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +9,244 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +13.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 523 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 Lakeville?
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 Blaine (71,261 residents, $103,382 income); Maple Grove (70,539 residents, $129,481 income); St. Cloud (69,926 residents, $61,112 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Mount Vernon, NY (72,528 residents); Gulfport, MS (72,533 residents); Turlock, CA (72,400 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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Lakeville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 647.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 72% 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
647.7
Violent rate
76.5
Property rate
571.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Lakeville?
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 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.1×
Home value
$425,200
Household income
$138,119
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the education layer cover for Lakeville?
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 20 public schools within the city match. 50.9% 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.
Poverty estimate
2.0%
Bachelor's degree+
50.9%
Matched public schools
20
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Minnesota average
B+
City profile score · Lakeville, MN
78/100
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.
Household income A+
$138,119
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A
2.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A
50.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime B+
77 /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.
Lakeville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 93/100 (A+) · $138,119
Poverty rate: 86/100 (A) · 2.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 85/100 (A) · 50.9%
Violent crime: 77/100 (B+) · 77 /100k
Cost of living: 46/100 (D) · 98.6 index
Where Lakeville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Lakeville'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 - Lakeville highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Lakeville, MN (this city): home $425,200, crime 648/100k
Mount Vernon, NY : home $449,600, crime 2,003/100k
Turlock, CA : home $443,900, crime 2,352/100k
Rocklin, CA : home $673,300, crime 1,068/100k
Blaine, MN : home $327,500, crime 1,500/100k
Maple Grove, MN : home $397,400, crime 1,877/100k
St. Cloud, MN : home $212,800, crime 3,323/100k
Eagan, MN : home $380,800, crime 1,873/100k
Woodbury, MN : home $434,900, crime 1,279/100k
Plymouth, MN : home $474,700, crime 1,075/100k
How does Lakeville compare to other US cities?
Here's how Lakeville stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income92% higher than other cities
Home value79% pricier than other cities
Median rent36% pricier than other cities
Safety79% 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, Lakeville ranks #92 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 Lakeville 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 Lakeville near the bottom of Minnesota's cities
Among the 785 Minnesota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lakeville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lakeville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#32 of 775
96th percentile in Minnesota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 785
0th percentile in Minnesota
Median Home Value
#53 of 774
93rd percentile in Minnesota
Poverty Rate
#610 of 785
22nd percentile in Minnesota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#56 of 784
93rd 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
92nd percentile nationally for median household income · 79th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Lakeville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Lakeville'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 Lakeville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$425,20021st percentilemore affordable than 21% 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
Lakeville'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
#7,090 of 15,516
More affordable than 54% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#129 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.1×, Lakeville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,090 of 15,516 and #129 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$138,119Lakeville, MN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lakeville, 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 Lakeville, MN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)50.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)73.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
72,480
Median Income
$138,119
Median Home Value
$425,200
Median Age
36.9
Poverty Rate
2.0%
Labor force participation
73.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
50.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
647.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
76.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
571.2
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
20
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Lakeville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
70,026 residents
2021
72,737 residents
2022
74,614 residents
2023
76,409 residents
2024
78,066 residents
2025
79,270 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
523
housing units authorized
Single-Family
434
detached homes
Multifamily
89
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
7.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
955
616
339
$224.0M
2020
1,154
801
353
$261.0M
2021
1,119
729
390
$261.1M
2022
713
546
167
$160.6M
2023
712
484
228
$144.8M
2024
523
434
89
$145.8M
Permit volume decreased 45% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
68.5%
Carpool
7.3%
Public Transit
2.0%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
20.7%
Other
0.8%
Based on 39,357 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 Lakeville. 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 Lakeville 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 Lakeville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lakeville 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.