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SheetMN-MINNETONKA-MN · Minnetonka, MN 53,256 pop · income 87th 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 Minnetonka
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Minnetonka on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Galveston · lowest
57,216
Galveston · lowest
57,216 median HH income
44.3% of the leader · rank #1
Makakilo · near
120,489
Makakilo · near
120,489 median HH income
93.2% of the leader · rank #2
Moscow · near
120,489
Moscow · near
120,489 median HH income
93.2% of the leader · rank #3
Minnetonka · this city
120,496
Minnetonka · this city
120,496 median HH income
93.2% of the leader · rank #4
Grant-Valkaria · near
120,500
Grant-Valkaria · near
120,500 median HH income
93.2% of the leader · rank #5
Sweetwater · near
120,500
Sweetwater · near
120,500 median HH income
93.2% of the leader · rank #6
Edina · highest
129,225
Edina · highest
129,225 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 Minnetonka 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: 53,256.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Minnetonka - the verdict
Minnetonka ranks in the 87th percentile for household income and the 38th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
87th
percentile, household income
82nd
percentile, home value
36th
percentile, median rent
38th
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: Minnetonka, MN
Minnesota's Minnetonka is a small city, with 53,256 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Minnetonka report a median income of $120,496 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.5%. Minnetonka's housing stock carries a median value of $456,200, and the median resident age is 42.8 years. 63.3% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 67.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 611 residential building permits were authorized in Minnetonka (Construction Slowdown), down 36% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Minnetonka reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1754.1 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: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Minnesota at 98.6 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,125 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Minnesota's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). Commute times here average 14.9 minutes, with 66.3% driving alone and 25.8% working from home, per Census ACS commuting 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 Minnetonka'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 reported crime to comparison shortlist to schools and households to work and mobility to population change to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Minnetonka, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, local building permits, 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. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Minnetonka?
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 1754.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 23% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Minnetonka?
Within Minnesota, the closest population matches are Edina (53,125 residents, $129,225 income); Apple Valley (55,696 residents, $99,277 income); St. Louis Park (49,541 residents, $100,250 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Twin Falls, ID (53,219 residents); Oak Park, IL (53,315 residents); Galveston, TX (53,348 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 Minnetonka?
The NCES join finds 18 public schools within the city match. 63.3% 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 does the journey to work look like in Minnetonka?
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 66.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 14.9 minutes.
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 Minnetonka growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -132 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 611 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
-0.2%
2025 estimate
53,969
2020 estimate
54,101
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Minnetonka?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.5%, 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
$120,496
Home value
$456,200
Value / income
3.8×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Minnesota average
B+
City profile score · Minnetonka, MN
75/100
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 A+
63.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A
$120,496
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B-
116 /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.
Minnetonka profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 94/100 (A+) · 63.3%
Household income: 86/100 (A) · $120,496
Poverty rate: 82/100 (A-) · 2.5%
Violent crime: 67/100 (B-) · 116 /100k
Cost of living: 46/100 (D) · 98.6 index
Where Minnetonka sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Minnetonka'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 - Minnetonka highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Minnetonka, MN (this city): home $456,200, crime 1,754/100k
Twin Falls, ID : home $279,400, crime 1,543/100k
Oak Park, IL : home $456,300, crime 3,931/100k
Galveston, TX : home $294,300, crime 2,917/100k
Pinellas Park, FL : home $251,900, crime 2,440/100k
Edina, MN : home $624,000, crime 1,563/100k
Apple Valley, MN : home $354,200, crime 1,883/100k
St. Louis Park, MN : home $371,600, crime 3,507/100k
Shakopee, MN : home $361,400, crime 1,275/100k
Mankato, MN : home $250,600, crime 2,865/100k
Moorhead, MN : home $246,300, crime 2,041/100k
How does Minnetonka compare to other US cities?
Where Minnetonka sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income87% higher than other cities
Home value82% pricier than other cities
Median rent36% pricier than other cities
Safety38% 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: Minnetonka ranks #177 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 Minnetonka 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 Minnetonka near the bottom of Minnesota's cities
Among the 785 Minnesota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Minnetonka ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Minnetonka only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#64 of 775
92nd percentile in Minnesota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 785
0th percentile in Minnesota
Median Home Value
#43 of 774
94th percentile in Minnesota
Poverty Rate
#572 of 785
26th percentile in Minnesota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#28 of 784
96th 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
87th percentile nationally for median household income · 38th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Minnetonka's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Minnetonka'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 Minnetonka's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$456,20018th percentilemore affordable than 18% 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
Minnetonka's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,010 of 15,516
More affordable than 35% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#279 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.8×, Minnetonka sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,010 of 15,516 and #279 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
$120,496Minnetonka, MN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Minnetonka, 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 Minnetonka, MN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)63.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)67.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
53,256
Median Income
$120,496
Median Home Value
$456,200
Median Age
42.8
Poverty Rate
2.5%
Labor force participation
67.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
63.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1754.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
115.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1638.6
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
18
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Minnetonka's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
54,101 residents
2021
53,235 residents
2022
52,645 residents
2023
52,695 residents
2024
52,804 residents
2025
53,969 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
611
housing units authorized
Single-Family
33
detached homes
Multifamily
578
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
11.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
953
50
903
$192.4M
2020
159
48
111
$38.8M
2021
226
36
190
$71.3M
2022
396
42
354
$85.9M
2023
27
27
0
$28.7M
2024
611
33
578
$159.2M
Permit volume decreased 36% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
14.9 minutes
Drive Alone
66.3%
Carpool
4.7%
Public Transit
0.9%
Walk
1.3%
Work from Home
25.8%
Other
1.0%
Based on 28,578 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 Minnetonka. 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 Minnetonka 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 Minnetonka sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Minnetonka 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.