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Place dossier plate
SheetMN-LINO-LAKES-MN · Lino Lakes, MN 21,847 pop · income 88th 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 Lino Lakes
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lino Lakes on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Sedalia · lowest
50,668
Sedalia · lowest
50,668 median HH income
39.8% of the leader · rank #1
Windsor · near
121,758
Windsor · near
121,758 median HH income
95.7% of the leader · rank #2
The Pinehills · near
121,792
The Pinehills · near
121,792 median HH income
95.7% of the leader · rank #3
Hollymead · near
121,795
Hollymead · near
121,795 median HH income
95.7% of the leader · rank #4
Grosse Pointe… · near
121,796
Grosse Pointe… · near
121,796 median HH income
95.7% of the leader · rank #5
Lino Lakes · this city
121,800
Lino Lakes · this city
121,800 median HH income
95.7% of the leader · rank #6
Otsego · highest
127,219
Otsego · highest
127,219 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 Lino Lakes 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: 21,847.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Lino Lakes - the verdict
Nationally, Lino Lakes sits in the 88th percentile for household income and the 77th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
88th
percentile, household income
76th
percentile, home value
36th
percentile, median rent
77th
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: Lino Lakes, MN
Minnesota's Lino Lakes is a small city, with 21,847 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Lino Lakes brings in $121,800 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.0%. Home values in Lino Lakes run a median of $385,000, and the median resident age is 43.1 years. About 43.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 64.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 122 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Growing), up 7% from five years earlier. Lino Lakes reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 696.5 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. 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 19.9 minutes, with 73.4% driving alone and 20.2% 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 Lino Lakes'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 housing and income to comparison shortlist to population change to reported crime to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lino Lakes, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits.
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
What does the journey to work look like in Lino Lakes?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.4%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.9 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Lino Lakes?
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 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Lino Lakes?
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 Golden Valley (21,927 residents, $114,435 income); Columbia Heights (22,016 residents, $74,688 income); Hastings (22,050 residents, $92,940 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Kailua CDP (Hawaii County), HI (21,851 residents); Darien, IL (21,855 residents); Woodlawn CDP (Fairfax County), VA (21,828 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.
Is Lino Lakes growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,750 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +8.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 122 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.
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 Lino Lakes?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 696.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 69% 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
696.5
Violent rate
35.3
Property rate
661.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for Lino Lakes?
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. 43.3% 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+
43.3%
Matched public schools
10
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Minnesota average
B+
City profile score · Lino Lakes, MN
77/100
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
35 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income A
$121,800
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 B+
43.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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.
Lino Lakes profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 88/100 (A) · 35 /100k
Household income: 87/100 (A) · $121,800
Poverty rate: 86/100 (A) · 2.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 78/100 (B+) · 43.3%
Cost of living: 46/100 (D) · 98.6 index
Where Lino Lakes sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Lino Lakes'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 - Lino Lakes highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Lino Lakes, MN (this city): home $385,000, crime 697/100k
Darien, IL : home $386,400, crime 958/100k
Shelby, NC : home $185,400, crime 3,477/100k
Sedalia, MO : home $136,500, crime 3,180/100k
Golden Valley, MN : home $423,500, crime 1,053/100k
Columbia Heights, MN : home $259,900, crime 2,506/100k
Hastings, MN : home $294,100, crime 1,113/100k
New Hope, MN : home $314,600, crime 2,131/100k
Willmar, MN : home $186,000, crime 1,731/100k
How does Lino Lakes compare to other US cities?
Lino Lakes measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income88% higher than other cities
Home value76% pricier than other cities
Median rent36% pricier than other cities
Safety77% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Minnesota and the picture shifts: Lino Lakes ranks #99 of 229 Minnesota cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Lino Lakes 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 Lino Lakes near the bottom of Minnesota's cities
Among the 785 Minnesota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lino Lakes ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lino Lakes only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#58 of 775
93rd percentile in Minnesota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 785
0th percentile in Minnesota
Median Home Value
#71 of 774
91st percentile in Minnesota
Poverty Rate
#610 of 785
22nd percentile in Minnesota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#86 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
88th percentile nationally for median household income · 77th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Lino Lakes's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Lino Lakes'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 Lino Lakes's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$385,00024th percentilemore affordable than 24% 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
Lino Lakes's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,497 of 15,516
More affordable than 52% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,132 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.2×, Lino Lakes sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,497 of 15,516 and #1,132 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
$121,800Lino Lakes, MN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lino Lakes, 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 Lino Lakes, MN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)43.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
21,847
Median Income
$121,800
Median Home Value
$385,000
Median Age
43.1
Poverty Rate
2.0%
Labor force participation
64.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
43.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
696.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
35.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
661.2
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
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Lino Lakes's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
21,470 residents
2021
21,581 residents
2022
22,088 residents
2023
22,366 residents
2024
22,831 residents
2025
23,220 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
122
housing units authorized
Single-Family
122
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
114
114
0
$28.7M
2020
170
166
4
$45.2M
2021
262
254
8
$78.5M
2022
137
137
0
$35.9M
2023
112
112
0
$34.7M
2024
122
122
0
$42.2M
Permit volume increased 7% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.9 minutes
Drive Alone
73.4%
Carpool
3.2%
Public Transit
1.6%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
20.2%
Other
1.0%
Based on 11,104 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 Lino Lakes. 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 Lino Lakes 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 Lino Lakes sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lino Lakes 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.