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Place dossier plate
SheetMN-ST-FRANCIS-MN · St. Francis, MN 8,279 pop · income 79th 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 St. Francis
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest St. Francis on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Virginia · lowest
48,321
Virginia · lowest
48,321 median HH income
26.6% of the leader · rank #1
St. Francis · this city
101,875
St. Francis · this city
101,875 median HH income
56.0% of the leader · rank #2
Valley Home · near
101,875
Valley Home · near
101,875 median HH income
56.0% of the leader · rank #3
Addieville · near
101,875
Addieville · near
101,875 median HH income
56.0% of the leader · rank #4
Santa Claus · near
101,875
Santa Claus · near
101,875 median HH income
56.0% of the leader · rank #5
Glenfield · near
101,875
Glenfield · near
101,875 median HH income
56.0% of the leader · rank #6
Orono · highest
181,875
Orono · highest
181,875 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 St. Francis 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: 8,279.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
St. Francis - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, St. Francis lands in the 79th percentile for household income and the 63rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
79th
percentile, household income
65th
percentile, home value
36th
percentile, median rent
63rd
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: St. Francis, MN
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 8,279 residents in St. Francis, a small town within Minnesota. The typical household in St. Francis brings in $101,875 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.9%. Typical homes in St. Francis are valued around $297,800, and the median resident age is 35.4 years. About 15.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 73.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 26 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 54% from five years earlier. St. Francis reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1031.2 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: 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. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Minnesota, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 St. Francis'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 population change to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For St. Francis, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count; 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 St. Francis?
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 1031.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 55% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Is St. Francis growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +465 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +5.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 26 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What does the journey to work look like in St. Francis?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for St. Francis?
Within Minnesota, the closest population matches are Waite Park (8,341 residents, $56,884 income); Orono (8,205 residents, $181,875 income); Virginia (8,362 residents, $48,321 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Twin Lakes CDP (Adams County), CO (8,279 residents); Joshua, TX (8,279 residents); Duvall, WA (8,279 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.
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 St. Francis?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.9%, 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
$101,875
Home value
$297,800
Value / income
2.9×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Minnesota average
C-
City profile score · St. Francis, MN
54/100
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 B+
$101,875
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B-
4.9%
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 D
223 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
15.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
St. Francis profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 78/100 (B+) · $101,875
Poverty rate: 66/100 (B-) · 4.9%
Cost of living: 46/100 (D) · 98.6 index
Violent crime: 44/100 (D) · 223 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 20/100 (F) · 15.1%
Where St. Francis sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
St. Francis'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 - St. Francis highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
St. Francis, MN (this city): home $297,800, crime 1,031/100k
Joshua, TX : home $271,000, crime 768/100k
Maryville, IL : home $253,100, crime 348/100k
Waite Park, MN : home $217,000, crime 4,232/100k
Orono, MN : home $952,400, crime 544/100k
Virginia, MN : home $117,500, crime 2,557/100k
New Prague, MN : home $323,500, crime 677/100k
Dayton, MN : home $510,600, crime 435/100k
How does St. Francis compare to other US cities?
St. Francis measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income79% higher than other cities
Home value65% pricier than other cities
Median rent36% pricier than other cities
Safety63% 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: St. Francis ranks #122 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 St. Francis 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 St. Francis near the bottom of Minnesota's cities
Among the 785 Minnesota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, St. Francis ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares St. Francis only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#111 of 775
86th percentile in Minnesota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 785
0th percentile in Minnesota
Median Home Value
#149 of 774
81st percentile in Minnesota
Poverty Rate
#432 of 785
44th percentile in Minnesota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#561 of 784
28th 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
79th percentile nationally for median household income · 63rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
St. Francis's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
St. Francis'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 St. Francis's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$297,80035th percentilemore affordable than 35% 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
St. Francis's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,269 of 15,516
More affordable than 60% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,354 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.9×, St. Francis sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,269 of 15,516 and #5,354 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$101,875St. Francis, MN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context St. Francis, 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 St. Francis, MN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)15.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)73.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,279
Median Income
$101,875
Median Home Value
$297,800
Median Age
35.4
Poverty Rate
4.9%
Labor force participation
73.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
15.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1031.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
222.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
808.5
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.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
St. Francis's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,170 residents
2021
8,343 residents
2022
8,389 residents
2023
8,451 residents
2024
8,539 residents
2025
8,635 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
26
housing units authorized
Single-Family
26
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
56
46
10
$11.3M
2020
70
70
0
$14.6M
2021
54
54
0
$9.1M
2022
32
32
0
$6.6M
2023
17
17
0
$3.5M
2024
26
26
0
$3.9M
Permit volume decreased 54% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.6%
Carpool
10.9%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
0.5%
Work from Home
9.7%
Based on 4,344 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 St. Francis. 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 St. Francis 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 St. Francis sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How St. Francis 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, 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.