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Place dossier plate
SheetND-MINOT-AFB-ND · Minot AFB, ND 4,904 pop · income 44th 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 Minot AFB
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Minot AFB on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Fellsmere · lowest
47,335
Fellsmere · lowest
47,335 median HH income
29.7% of the leader · rank #1
Fountainebleau · near
65,568
Fountainebleau · near
65,568 median HH income
41.2% of the leader · rank #2
Jamestown · near
65,568
Jamestown · near
65,568 median HH income
41.2% of the leader · rank #3
Kountze · near
65,568
Kountze · near
65,568 median HH income
41.2% of the leader · rank #4
Ranchester · near
65,568
Ranchester · near
65,568 median HH income
41.2% of the leader · rank #5
Minot AFB · this city
65,571
Minot AFB · this city
65,571 median HH income
41.2% of the leader · rank #6
Hillandale · highest
159,118
Hillandale · highest
159,118 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Minot AFB on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 4,904.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Minot AFB lands in the 44th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
44th
percentile, household income
7th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Minot AFB, ND
4,904 people live in Minot AFB, North Dakota - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $65,571 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 0.0%. The median resident age is 22.2 years. 31.7% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 27.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 3 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
Living costs in North Dakota run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, North Dakota scores 89.0 (Well Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $965 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in North Dakota run around $200, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Commute times here average 11.2 minutes, with 82.0% driving alone and 2.2% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 22.2 out of 100 (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Minot AFB'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 work and mobility 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 Minot AFB, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Minot AFB?
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 82.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 11.2 minutes.
Which cities make useful reference points for Minot AFB?
Within North Dakota, the closest population matches are Lincoln (4,309 residents, $83,387 income); Grafton (4,128 residents, $60,184 income); Horace (3,964 residents, $145,801 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are North Manchester, IN (4,904 residents); South Sarasota, FL (4,905 residents); Fellsmere, FL (4,902 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.
What does the education layer cover for Minot AFB?
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 31.7% 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.
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.
Below median income · poverty 0.0% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
89.0 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, North Dakota average
B
City profile score · Minot AFB, ND
72/100
4 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+
0.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living A
89.0 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share C+
31.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income D
$65,571
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Minot AFB profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 100/100 (A+) · 0.0%
Cost of living: 89/100 (A) · 89.0 index
Bachelor's+ share: 61/100 (C+) · 31.7%
Household income: 43/100 (D) · $65,571
How does Minot AFB compare to other US cities?
Where Minot AFB sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income44% higher than other cities
Median rent7% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Minot AFB against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to North Dakota only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
North Dakota-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Minot AFB near the bottom of North Dakota's cities
Among the 246 North Dakota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Minot AFB ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Minot AFB only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#132 of 227
42nd percentile in North Dakota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 246
0th percentile in North Dakota
Poverty Rate
#194 of 246
0th percentile in North Dakota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#44 of 246
82nd percentile in North Dakota
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 North Dakota only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
44th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$65,571Minot AFB, ND median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Minot AFB, ND median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Minot AFB, ND.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)31.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)27.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
4,904
Median Income
$65,571
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
22.2
Poverty Rate
0.0%
Labor force participation
27.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
31.7%
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
11.2 minutes
Drive Alone
82.0%
Carpool
11.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.9%
Work from Home
2.2%
Other
2.3%
Based on 2,317 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
North Dakota statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $200
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across North Dakota at $200 (electricity about $90 , water and sewer about $40 ).
These are North Dakota statewide averages, not a meter reading for Minot AFB. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
North Dakota's BEA cost-of-living index is 89.0 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Minot AFB is $965/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to North Dakota statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 22.2 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a North Dakota statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Minot AFB sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Minot AFB compares to similar-size North Dakota 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, NCES CCD, 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.