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SheetMN-ST-PAUL-PARK-MN · St. Paul Park, MN 5,464 pop · income 77th 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. Paul Park
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest St. Paul Park on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Floral · lowest
59,000
Floral · lowest
59,000 median HH income
39.5% of the leader · rank #1
Woodlawn Park · near
98,661
Woodlawn Park · near
98,661 median HH income
66.0% of the leader · rank #2
Texhoma · near
98,661
Texhoma · near
98,661 median HH income
66.0% of the leader · rank #3
St. Paul Park · this city
98,670
St. Paul Park · this city
98,670 median HH income
66.0% of the leader · rank #4
Lexington · near
98,676
Lexington · near
98,676 median HH income
66.0% of the leader · rank #5
Meridian · near
98,686
Meridian · near
98,686 median HH income
66.0% of the leader · rank #6
Credit River · highest
149,524
Credit River · highest
149,524 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. Paul 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: 5,464.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
St. Paul Park - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, St. Paul Park places in the 77th percentile for household income and the 58th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
77th
percentile, household income
56th
percentile, home value
36th
percentile, median rent
58th
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. Paul Park, MN
Minnesota's St. Paul Park is a small town, with 5,464 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in St. Paul Park brings in $98,670 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.7%. Typical homes in St. Paul Park are valued around $252,800, and the median resident age is 40.2 years. 24.3% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 72.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 2 residential building permits were authorized in St. Paul Park (Construction Slowdown), down 78% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. St. Paul Park reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1147.7 in FBI UCR data, below 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: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Minnesota scores 98.6 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. 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). Workers in St. Paul Park report an average commute of 21.8 minutes, with 72.3% driving alone and 15.6% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 42.4 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of St. Paul 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 housing and income to work and mobility to population change to reported crime to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For St. Paul Park, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, 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 St. Paul 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 2.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in St. Paul Park?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 72.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.8 minutes.
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.
Is St. Paul Park growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -148 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 2 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for St. Paul 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 Credit River (5,531 residents, $149,524 income); Montevideo (5,303 residents, $65,724 income); Chisago City (5,629 residents, $96,964 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Coraopolis, PA (5,464 residents); The Meadows, FL (5,463 residents); Malone, NY (5,466 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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in St. Paul Park?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1147.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 50% 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.
Total reported rate
1147.7
Violent rate
301.0
Property rate
846.7
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Minnesota average
C
City profile score · St. Paul Park, MN
59/100
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.
Poverty rate A
1.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income B+
$98,670
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share D
24.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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.
Violent crime F
301 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
St. Paul Park profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 88/100 (A) · 1.7%
Household income: 76/100 (B+) · $98,670
Bachelor's+ share: 47/100 (D) · 24.3%
Cost of living: 46/100 (D) · 98.6 index
Violent crime: 33/100 (F) · 301 /100k
Where St. Paul Park sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
St. Paul 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. Paul Park highlighted among 26 peers.Read the chart values
St. Paul Park, MN (this city): home $252,800, crime 1,148/100k
Coraopolis, PA : home $151,500, crime 1,326/100k
Shillington, PA : home $190,600, crime 733/100k
La Crescent, MN : home $244,500, crime 512/100k
Glencoe, MN : home $213,100, crime 602/100k
International Falls, MN : home $115,000, crime 1,570/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does St. Paul Park compare to other US cities?
Where St. Paul Park sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income77% higher than other cities
Home value56% pricier than other cities
Median rent36% pricier than other cities
Safety58% 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, St. Paul Park ranks #132 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 St. Paul 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. Paul Park near the bottom of Minnesota's cities
Among the 785 Minnesota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, St. Paul Park ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares St. Paul Park only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#132 of 775
83rd percentile in Minnesota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 785
0th percentile in Minnesota
Median Home Value
#209 of 774
73rd percentile in Minnesota
Poverty Rate
#631 of 785
19th percentile in Minnesota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#304 of 784
61st 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
77th percentile nationally for median household income · 58th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
St. Paul Park's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
St. Paul 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. Paul Park's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$252,80044th 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
St. Paul Park's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,329 of 15,516
More affordable than 72% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,876 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.6×, St. Paul Park sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,329 of 15,516 and #3,876 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
$98,670St. Paul Park, MN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context St. Paul 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. Paul Park, MN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)24.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)72.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,464
Median Income
$98,670
Median Home Value
$252,800
Median Age
40.2
Poverty Rate
1.7%
Labor force participation
72.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
24.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1147.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
301.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
846.7
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.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
St. Paul Park's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
5,544 residents
2021
5,502 residents
2022
5,451 residents
2023
5,392 residents
2024
5,380 residents
2025
5,396 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
2
housing units authorized
Single-Family
2
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
9
9
0
$2.1M
2020
1
1
0
$0.2M
2021
2
2
0
$0.6M
2022
3
3
0
$0.6M
2023
5
5
0
$1.4M
2024
2
2
0
$0.2M
Permit volume decreased 78% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.8 minutes
Drive Alone
72.3%
Carpool
7.4%
Public Transit
1.4%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
15.6%
Other
3.3%
Based on 2,951 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. Paul 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. Paul 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. Paul Park sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How St. Paul 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.