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SheetMN-MAPLEWOOD-MN · Maplewood, MN 40,981 pop · income 70th 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 Maplewood
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Maplewood on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lancaster · lowest
54,901
Lancaster · lowest
54,901 median HH income
45.2% of the leader · rank #1
Spry · near
88,529
Spry · near
88,529 median HH income
72.9% of the leader · rank #2
Maplewood · this city
88,534
Maplewood · this city
88,534 median HH income
72.9% of the leader · rank #3
Chesterton · near
88,536
Chesterton · near
88,536 median HH income
72.9% of the leader · rank #4
Collinsville · near
88,537
Collinsville · near
88,537 median HH income
72.9% of the leader · rank #5
Cordova · near
88,538
Cordova · near
88,538 median HH income
72.9% of the leader · rank #6
Cottage Grove · highest
121,452
Cottage Grove · highest
121,452 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 Maplewood 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: 40,981.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Maplewood - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Maplewood places in the 70th percentile for household income and the 14th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
70th
percentile, household income
64th
percentile, home value
36th
percentile, median rent
14th
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: Maplewood, MN
40,981 people live in Maplewood, Minnesota - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $88,534 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.1%. Maplewood's housing stock carries a median value of $291,300, and the median resident age is 39.3 years. About 36.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 65.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 342 residential building permits were authorized in Maplewood (Building Boom), up 116% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Maplewood's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 3168.7 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as 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. 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. Natural-hazard exposure scores 42.4 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Maplewood'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 Maplewood, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates.
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 Maplewood growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -1,286 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 342 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Maplewood?
Within Minnesota, the closest population matches are Cottage Grove (40,124 residents, $121,452 income); Moorhead (44,706 residents, $69,371 income); Mankato (44,882 residents, $64,826 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Romeoville, IL (40,996 residents); Lynnwood, WA (40,953 residents); Reynoldsburg, OH (41,032 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.
What does the education layer cover for Maplewood?
The NCES join finds 11 public schools within the city match. 36.3% 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.
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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Maplewood?
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 3168.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 39% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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 Maplewood?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.1%, 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.
Household income
$88,534
Home value
$291,300
Value / income
3.3×
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 Maplewood?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 71.2%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
1.7%
Work from home
15.7%
Drive alone
71.2%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 20,038 workers age 16+.
Above median income · poverty 6.1% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
98.6 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Minnesota average
C-
City profile score · Maplewood, MN
52/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share B-
36.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B-
$88,534
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C
6.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better 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.
Violent crime F
454 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Maplewood profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 69/100 (B-) · 36.3%
Household income: 68/100 (B-) · $88,534
Poverty rate: 58/100 (C) · 6.1%
Cost of living: 46/100 (D) · 98.6 index
Violent crime: 19/100 (F) · 454 /100k
Where Maplewood sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Maplewood'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 - Maplewood highlighted among 13 peers.Read the chart values
Maplewood, MN (this city): home $291,300, crime 3,169/100k
Romeoville, IL : home $245,200, crime 1,163/100k
Lynnwood, WA : home $635,800, crime 6,329/100k
Reynoldsburg, OH : home $230,300, crime 2,878/100k
Covington, KY : home $167,900, crime 1,923/100k
Lancaster, OH : home $180,200, crime 2,531/100k
Mount Juliet, TN : home $423,000, crime 1,124/100k
Cottage Grove, MN : home $359,600, crime 721/100k
Moorhead, MN : home $246,300, crime 2,041/100k
Mankato, MN : home $250,600, crime 2,865/100k
Shakopee, MN : home $361,400, crime 1,275/100k
Richfield, MN : home $320,400, crime 2,728/100k
Roseville, MN : home $334,800, crime 8,897/100k
How does Maplewood compare to other US cities?
Maplewood measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income70% higher than other cities
Home value64% pricier than other cities
Median rent36% pricier than other cities
Safety14% 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, Maplewood ranks #215 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 Maplewood 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 Maplewood near the bottom of Minnesota's cities
Among the 785 Minnesota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Maplewood ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Maplewood only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#194 of 775
75th percentile in Minnesota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 785
0th percentile in Minnesota
Median Home Value
#157 of 774
80th percentile in Minnesota
Poverty Rate
#351 of 785
55th percentile in Minnesota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#141 of 784
82nd 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
70th percentile nationally for median household income · 14th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Maplewood's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Maplewood'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 Maplewood's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$291,30036th percentilemore affordable than 36% 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
Maplewood's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,080 of 15,516
More affordable than 48% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,278 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.3×, Maplewood sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,080 of 15,516 and #1,278 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
$88,534Maplewood, MN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Maplewood, 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 Maplewood, MN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)36.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
40,981
Median Income
$88,534
Median Home Value
$291,300
Median Age
39.3
Poverty Rate
6.1%
Labor force participation
65.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
36.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3168.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
454.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2714.6
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
11
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Maplewood's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
42,003 residents
2021
40,977 residents
2022
40,042 residents
2023
40,069 residents
2024
40,018 residents
2025
40,717 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
342
housing units authorized
Single-Family
15
detached homes
Multifamily
327
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
8.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
158
2
156
$21.5M
2020
13
5
8
$2.9M
2021
4
4
0
$1.9M
2022
155
7
148
$26.6M
2023
3
3
0
$1.4M
2024
342
15
327
$89.7M
Permit volume increased 116% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
71.2%
Carpool
9.9%
Public Transit
1.7%
Walk
0.5%
Work from Home
15.7%
Other
1.0%
Based on 20,038 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 Maplewood. 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 Maplewood 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 Maplewood sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Maplewood 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.