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Place dossier plate
SheetMN-NORTH-MANKATO-MN · North Mankato, MN 14,212 pop · income 59th 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 North Mankato
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest North Mankato on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Natchez · lowest
35,613
Natchez · lowest
35,613 median HH income
18.6% of the leader · rank #1
Lapel · near
77,563
Lapel · near
77,563 median HH income
40.6% of the leader · rank #2
Northlake · near
77,564
Northlake · near
77,564 median HH income
40.6% of the leader · rank #3
North Mankato · this city
77,571
North Mankato · this city
77,571 median HH income
40.6% of the leader · rank #4
Sweetser · near
77,578
Sweetser · near
77,578 median HH income
40.6% of the leader · rank #5
Wadsworth · near
77,581
Wadsworth · near
77,581 median HH income
40.6% of the leader · rank #6
Powell · highest
191,250
Powell · highest
191,250 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 North Mankato 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: 14,212.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
North Mankato - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, North Mankato lands in the 59th percentile for household income and the 64th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
59th
percentile, household income
56th
percentile, home value
36th
percentile, median rent
64th
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: North Mankato, MN
14,212 people live in North Mankato, Minnesota - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. North Mankato households earn a median of $77,571 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 4.6%. North Mankato's housing stock carries a median value of $252,700, and the median resident age is 38.2 years. Educational attainment runs 43.0% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 71.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 38 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Growing), up 19% from five years earlier. North Mankato reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 998.5 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. 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 North Mankato'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 housing and income to work and mobility to reported crime to population change to comparison shortlist to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For North Mankato, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history, commute-mode shares, 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. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in North Mankato?
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 3.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in North Mankato?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.9%. 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in North Mankato?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 998.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 56% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for North Mankato?
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 Fergus Falls (14,138 residents, $50,865 income); Robbinsdale (14,318 residents, $84,719 income); New Ulm (14,066 residents, $63,984 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Sierra Vista Southeast, AZ (14,213 residents); Natchez, MS (14,207 residents); East Rancho Dominguez, CA (14,219 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 North Mankato growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -135 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 38 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
2020 estimate
14,300
2025 estimate
14,165
Period change
-0.9%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the education layer cover for North Mankato?
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 6 public schools within the city match. 43.0% 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
4.6%
Bachelor's degree+
43.0%
Matched public schools
6
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above median income · poverty 4.6% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
98.6 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Minnesota average
C+
City profile score · North Mankato, MN
60/100
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+
43.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B-
4.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C
150 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income C
$77,571
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.
North Mankato profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 78/100 (B+) · 43.0%
Poverty rate: 68/100 (B-) · 4.6%
Violent crime: 58/100 (C) · 150 /100k
Household income: 57/100 (C) · $77,571
Cost of living: 46/100 (D) · 98.6 index
Where North Mankato sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
North Mankato'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 - North Mankato highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
North Mankato, MN (this city): home $252,700, crime 999/100k
Powell, OH : home $493,500, crime 920/100k
Fergus Falls, MN : home $173,300, crime 2,569/100k
Robbinsdale, MN : home $280,400, crime 2,157/100k
New Ulm, MN : home $192,700, crime 1,090/100k
Brainerd, MN : home $178,600, crime 2,210/100k
Marshall, MN : home $198,900, crime 991/100k
Sauk Rapids, MN : home $240,200, crime 1,376/100k
How does North Mankato compare to other US cities?
Where North Mankato sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income59% higher than other cities
Home value56% pricier than other cities
Median rent36% pricier than other cities
Safety64% 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, North Mankato ranks #120 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 North Mankato 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 North Mankato near the bottom of Minnesota's cities
Among the 785 Minnesota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, North Mankato ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares North Mankato only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#276 of 775
64th percentile in Minnesota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 785
0th percentile in Minnesota
Median Home Value
#210 of 774
73rd percentile in Minnesota
Poverty Rate
#453 of 785
42nd percentile in Minnesota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#90 of 784
88th 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
59th percentile nationally for median household income · 64th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
North Mankato's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
North Mankato'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 North Mankato's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$252,70044th percentilemore affordable than 44% 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
North Mankato'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
#7,936 of 15,516
More affordable than 49% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,243 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.3×, North Mankato sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,936 of 15,516 and #1,243 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
$77,571North Mankato, MN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context North Mankato, 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 North Mankato, MN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)43.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)71.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
14,212
Median Income
$77,571
Median Home Value
$252,700
Median Age
38.2
Poverty Rate
4.6%
Labor force participation
71.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
43.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
998.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
149.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
848.7
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
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
North Mankato's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
14,300 residents
2021
14,272 residents
2022
14,241 residents
2023
14,164 residents
2024
14,170 residents
2025
14,165 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
38
housing units authorized
Single-Family
10
detached homes
Multifamily
28
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
32
24
8
$8.7M
2020
53
37
16
$11.3M
2021
59
45
14
$17.0M
2022
70
61
9
$18.6M
2023
15
15
0
$7.0M
2024
38
10
28
$6.6M
Permit volume increased 19% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
73.9%
Carpool
6.8%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
3.2%
Work from Home
10.7%
Other
5.3%
Based on 7,603 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 North Mankato. 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 North Mankato 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 North Mankato sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How North Mankato 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.