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Place dossier plate
SheetMN-WORTHINGTON-MN · Worthington, MN 13,792 pop · income 38th pct · 6 tracts
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 Worthington
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Worthington on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Waycross · lowest
37,398
Waycross · lowest
37,398 median HH income
23.4% of the leader · rank #1
Mineral Ridge · near
61,830
Mineral Ridge · near
61,830 median HH income
38.7% of the leader · rank #2
West Modesto · near
61,833
West Modesto · near
61,833 median HH income
38.7% of the leader · rank #3
Green Ridge · near
61,838
Green Ridge · near
61,838 median HH income
38.7% of the leader · rank #4
Worthington · this city
61,840
Worthington · this city
61,840 median HH income
38.7% of the leader · rank #5
Half Moon · near
61,848
Half Moon · near
61,848 median HH income
38.7% of the leader · rank #6
Rogers · highest
159,638
Rogers · highest
159,638 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 Worthington 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: 13,792.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Worthington - the verdict
Worthington ranks in the 38th percentile for household income and the 56th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
38th
percentile, household income
38th
percentile, home value
36th
percentile, median rent
56th
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: Worthington, MN
Minnesota's Worthington is a small town, with 13,792 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Worthington report a median income of $61,840 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 11.0%. Home values in Worthington run a median of $184,200, and the median resident age is 33.5 years. Educational attainment runs 16.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 59.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 8 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Slowing), down 20% from five years earlier. Worthington reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1205.4 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). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 44.4°F with 30.5 inches of precipitation per year and 45.2 inches of snowfall.
Minnesota tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: the state registers 98.6 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. 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). The average commute for Worthington workers runs 17.6 minutes, with 72.0% driving alone and 3.4% 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 Worthington'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 within-city variation to work and mobility to population change to housing and income to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to reported crime to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Worthington, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What can 6 Census tracts reveal inside Worthington?
PlainCities matches 6 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
What does the journey to work look like in Worthington?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 72.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.6 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. 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.
Is Worthington growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +94 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 8 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Worthington?
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 Sauk Rapids (13,851 residents, $67,004 income); Marshall (13,880 residents, $64,636 income); New Ulm (14,066 residents, $63,984 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Broussard, LA (13,791 residents); Olean, NY (13,798 residents); Lumberton, TX (13,803 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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Worthington?
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 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 11.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.0×
Home value
$184,200
Household income
$61,840
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What physical conditions frame life in Worthington?
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 44.4°F, with 30.5 inches of precipitation and 45.2 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Minnesota is 42.4 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
42.4
Annual precipitation
30.5 in
Mean temperature
44.4°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Worthington?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1205.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 47% 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
1205.4
Violent rate
281.0
Property rate
924.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for Worthington?
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 7 public schools within the city match. 16.8% 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
11.0%
Bachelor's degree+
16.8%
Matched public schools
7
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Below median income · poverty 11.0% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
98.6 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Minnesota average
F
City profile score · Worthington, MN
37/100
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.
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.
Household income F
$61,840
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
11.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
281 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
16.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Worthington profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 46/100 (D) · 98.6 index
Household income: 37/100 (F) · $61,840
Poverty rate: 36/100 (F) · 11.0%
Violent crime: 36/100 (F) · 281 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 25/100 (F) · 16.8%
Where Worthington sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Worthington'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 - Worthington highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Worthington, MN (this city): home $184,200, crime 1,205/100k
Broussard, LA : home $301,000, crime 2,348/100k
Olean, NY : home $90,500, crime 4,136/100k
Lumberton, TX : home $271,500, crime 538/100k
Waycross, GA : home $88,600, crime 6,061/100k
Sauk Rapids, MN : home $240,200, crime 1,376/100k
Marshall, MN : home $198,900, crime 991/100k
New Ulm, MN : home $192,700, crime 1,090/100k
Fergus Falls, MN : home $173,300, crime 2,569/100k
Rogers, MN : home $437,900, crime 1,670/100k
North Mankato, MN : home $252,700, crime 999/100k
How does Worthington compare to other US cities?
Worthington measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income38% higher than other cities
Home value38% pricier than other cities
Median rent36% pricier than other cities
Safety56% 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: Worthington ranks #138 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 Worthington 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 Worthington near the bottom of Minnesota's cities
Among the 785 Minnesota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Worthington ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Worthington only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#496 of 775
36th percentile in Minnesota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 785
0th percentile in Minnesota
Median Home Value
#357 of 774
54th percentile in Minnesota
Poverty Rate
#167 of 785
78th percentile in Minnesota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#514 of 784
34th 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
38th percentile nationally for median household income · 56th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Worthington's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Worthington'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 Worthington's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$184,200Among the most affordablemore affordable than 62% 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
Worthington's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,582 of 15,516
More affordable than 58% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#873 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.0×, Worthington sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,582 of 15,516 and #873 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$61,840Worthington, MN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Worthington, 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 Worthington, MN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)16.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
13,792
Median Income
$61,840
Median Home Value
$184,200
Median Age
33.5
Poverty Rate
11.0%
Labor force participation
59.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
16.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1205.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
281.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
924.4
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
44.4°F
Annual Precipitation
30.5"
Annual Snowfall
45.2"
Schools
Total Schools
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Worthington's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
13,885 residents
2021
13,813 residents
2022
13,838 residents
2023
13,821 residents
2024
13,924 residents
2025
13,979 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
8
housing units authorized
Single-Family
6
detached homes
Multifamily
2
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
10
4
6
$1.8M
2020
9
3
6
$2.2M
2021
6
0
6
$1.7M
2022
13
13
0
$3.3M
2023
7
1
6
$2.1M
2024
8
6
2
$2.4M
Permit volume decreased 20% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.6 minutes
Drive Alone
72.0%
Carpool
15.9%
Public Transit
1.8%
Walk
5.4%
Work from Home
3.4%
Other
1.5%
Based on 5,882 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 Worthington. 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 Worthington 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 Worthington sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Worthington 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.