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Place dossier plate
SheetMN-ST-LOUIS-PARK-MN · St. Louis Park, MN 49,541 pop · income 78th 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. Louis Park
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest St. Louis Park on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Mankato · lowest
64,826
Mankato · lowest
64,826 median HH income
48.6% of the leader · rank #1
Wells Bridge · near
100,234
Wells Bridge · near
100,234 median HH income
75.1% of the leader · rank #2
St. Louis Park · this city
100,250
St. Louis Park · this city
100,250 median HH income
75.2% of the leader · rank #3
Augusta · near
100,250
Augusta · near
100,250 median HH income
75.2% of the leader · rank #4
Marblehead · near
100,250
Marblehead · near
100,250 median HH income
75.2% of the leader · rank #5
Harbor Island · near
100,250
Harbor Island · near
100,250 median HH income
75.2% of the leader · rank #6
Chesterfield · highest
133,380
Chesterfield · highest
133,380 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. Louis Park 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: 49,541.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
St. Louis Park - the verdict
St. Louis Park ranks in the 78th percentile for household income and the 11th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
78th
percentile, household income
75th
percentile, home value
36th
percentile, median rent
11th
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. Louis Park, MN
49,541 people live in St. Louis Park, Minnesota - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in St. Louis Park brings in $100,250 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.7%. Home values in St. Louis Park run a median of $371,600, and the median resident age is 36.0 years. Educational attainment runs 63.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 73.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 1 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 100% from five years earlier. St. Louis Park's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 3506.6 crimes per 100,000 residents, above 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. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Minnesota's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). 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 St. Louis Park'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 housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For St. Louis Park, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, local building permits.
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.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in St. Louis Park?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3506.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 54% higher 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.
How far does income reach against housing in St. Louis Park?
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 3.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in St. Louis Park?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 63.0%. 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. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for St. Louis Park?
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 Edina (53,125 residents, $129,225 income); Minnetonka (53,256 residents, $120,496 income); Shakopee (45,002 residents, $110,989 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Florin, CA (49,536 residents); Cypress, CA (49,531 residents); Eagle Mountain, UT (49,514 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 St. Louis Park growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -10 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1 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
50,037
2025 estimate
50,027
Period change
-0.0%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Minnesota average
B-
City profile score · St. Louis Park, MN
68/100
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+
63.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$100,250
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B
3.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C-
180 /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.
St. Louis Park profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 94/100 (A+) · 63.9%
Household income: 77/100 (B+) · $100,250
Poverty rate: 74/100 (B) · 3.7%
Violent crime: 51/100 (C-) · 180 /100k
Cost of living: 46/100 (D) · 98.6 index
Where St. Louis Park sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
St. Louis Park'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. Louis Park highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
St. Louis Park, MN (this city): home $371,600, crime 3,507/100k
Cypress, CA : home $870,100, crime 1,875/100k
Chesterfield, MO : home $458,000, crime 1,382/100k
Rockwall, TX : home $382,400, crime 1,519/100k
Edina, MN : home $624,000, crime 1,563/100k
Minnetonka, MN : home $456,200, crime 1,754/100k
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
Apple Valley, MN : home $354,200, crime 1,883/100k
How does St. Louis Park compare to other US cities?
St. Louis Park measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income78% higher than other cities
Home value75% pricier than other cities
Median rent36% pricier than other cities
Safety11% 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. Louis Park ranks #222 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. Louis Park 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. Louis Park near the bottom of Minnesota's cities
Among the 785 Minnesota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, St. Louis Park ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares St. Louis Park only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#118 of 775
85th percentile in Minnesota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 785
0th percentile in Minnesota
Median Home Value
#76 of 774
90th percentile in Minnesota
Poverty Rate
#497 of 785
36th percentile in Minnesota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#27 of 784
97th 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
78th percentile nationally for median household income · 11th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
St. Louis Park's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
St. Louis Park'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. Louis Park's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$371,60025th percentilemore affordable than 25% 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. Louis Park's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,742 of 15,516
More affordable than 37% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,700 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.7×, St. Louis Park sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,742 of 15,516 and #1,700 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
$100,250St. Louis Park, MN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context St. Louis Park, 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. Louis Park, MN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)63.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)73.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
49,541
Median Income
$100,250
Median Home Value
$371,600
Median Age
36.0
Poverty Rate
3.7%
Labor force participation
73.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
63.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3506.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
179.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3327.1
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. Louis Park's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
50,037 residents
2021
49,283 residents
2022
48,931 residents
2023
49,919 residents
2024
50,076 residents
2025
50,027 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
1
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
442
0
442
$76.5M
2020
180
6
174
$48.7M
2021
332
7
325
$77.0M
2022
926
5
921
$220.5M
2023
64
4
60
$22.8M
2024
1
1
0
$0.5M
Permit volume decreased 100% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
63.0%
Carpool
5.6%
Public Transit
2.6%
Walk
1.8%
Work from Home
25.2%
Other
1.8%
Based on 30,243 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. Louis Park. 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. Louis Park 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. Louis Park sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How St. Louis Park 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.