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Place dossier plate
SheetND-MINOT-ND · Minot, ND 47,922 pop · income 59th pct · 16 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 Minot
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Minot on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Roswell · lowest
50,294
Roswell · lowest
50,294 median HH income
51.9% of the leader · rank #1
Lihue · near
77,420
Lihue · near
77,420 median HH income
79.9% of the leader · rank #2
Mechanicsburg · near
77,422
Mechanicsburg · near
77,422 median HH income
79.9% of the leader · rank #3
Minot · this city
77,431
Minot · this city
77,431 median HH income
79.9% of the leader · rank #4
Linden · near
77,434
Linden · near
77,434 median HH income
79.9% of the leader · rank #5
Henryville · near
77,440
Henryville · near
77,440 median HH income
79.9% of the leader · rank #6
West Fargo · highest
96,877
West Fargo · highest
96,877 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 Minot 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: 47,922.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Minot - the verdict
Minot ranks in the 59th percentile for household income and the 39th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
59th
percentile, household income
57th
percentile, home value
7th
percentile, median rent
39th
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: Minot, ND
47,922 people live in Minot, North Dakota - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Minot brings in $77,431 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.0%. Typical homes in Minot are valued around $254,400, and the median resident age is 33.6 years. Educational attainment runs 29.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 63.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 92 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 44% from five years earlier. Minot reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1721.9 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Minot's yearly average temperature at 43.4°F with 16.7 inches of precipitation per year and 45.1 inches of snowfall.
Living costs in North Dakota run below the national norm: the state registers 89.0 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $965 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in North Dakota run around $200, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Minot workers runs 17.5 minutes, with 77.7% driving alone and 5.4% working from home. 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'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 schools and households to housing and income to reported crime to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to within-city variation to work and mobility to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Minot, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Minot?
The NCES join finds 22 public schools within the city match. 29.9% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Minot?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.0%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Minot?
Within North Dakota, the closest population matches are West Fargo (39,325 residents, $96,877 income); Grand Forks (58,882 residents, $63,838 income); Williston (27,964 residents, $84,309 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Charleston, WV (47,918 residents); North Highlands, CA (47,900 residents); Ocoee, FL (47,885 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.
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.
PlainCities matches 16 Census tracts to this city.
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 Minot?
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 1721.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 24% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1403.0
Violent rate
318.9
Total reported rate
1721.9
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 43.4°F, with 16.7 inches of precipitation and 45.1 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for North Dakota is 22.2 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.
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.
Mean temperature
43.4°F
Annual precipitation
16.7 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
22.2
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
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 77.7%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.5 minutes.
Public transit
0.1%
Work from home
5.4%
Drive alone
77.7%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 26,558 workers age 16+.
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -1,077 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 92 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
-2.2%
2025 estimate
47,308
2020 estimate
48,385
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 6.0% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
89.0 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, North Dakota average
C
City profile score · Minot, ND
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.
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.
Poverty rate C
6.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C
29.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C
$77,431
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
319 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Minot profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 89/100 (A) · 89.0 index
Poverty rate: 59/100 (C) · 6.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 58/100 (C) · 29.9%
Household income: 57/100 (C) · $77,431
Violent crime: 30/100 (F) · 319 /100k
Where Minot sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Minot'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 - Minot highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Minot, ND (this city): home $254,400, crime 1,722/100k
Charleston, WV : home $187,300, crime 3,663/100k
Roswell, NM : home $139,200, crime 3,357/100k
San Luis Obispo, CA : home $896,500, crime 3,093/100k
Prescott Valley, AZ : home $376,300, crime 994/100k
West Fargo, ND : home $302,200, crime 1,178/100k
Grand Forks, ND : home $243,300, crime 2,641/100k
Williston, ND : home $262,700, crime 2,753/100k
Dickinson, ND : home $252,400, crime 2,003/100k
Mandan, ND : home $246,300, crime 2,869/100k
Bismarck, ND : home $291,400, crime 2,678/100k
How does Minot compare to other US cities?
Minot measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income59% higher than other cities
Home value57% pricier than other cities
Median rent7% pricier than other cities
Safety39% 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 North Dakota, Minot ranks #13 of 21 North Dakota 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 Minot 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 near the bottom of North Dakota's cities
Among the 246 North Dakota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Minot ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Minot only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#77 of 227
66th percentile in North Dakota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 246
0th percentile in North Dakota
Median Home Value
#24 of 226
89th percentile in North Dakota
Poverty Rate
#115 of 246
53rd percentile in North Dakota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#55 of 246
77th 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
59th percentile nationally for median household income · 39th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Minot's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Minot'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 Minot's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$254,40043rd percentilemore affordable than 43% 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
Minot's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,058 of 15,516
More affordable than 48% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,273 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.3×, Minot sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,058 of 15,516 and #1,273 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
$77,431Minot, ND median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Minot, 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, ND.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)29.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
47,922
Median Income
$77,431
Median Home Value
$254,400
Median Age
33.6
Poverty Rate
6.0%
Labor force participation
63.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
29.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1721.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
318.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1403.0
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
43.4°F
Annual Precipitation
16.7"
Annual Snowfall
45.1"
Schools
Total Schools
22
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Minot's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
48,385 residents
2021
48,014 residents
2022
47,638 residents
2023
47,297 residents
2024
47,277 residents
2025
47,308 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
92
housing units authorized
Single-Family
72
detached homes
Multifamily
20
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
64
64
0
$14.2M
2020
129
125
4
$29.6M
2021
145
83
62
$27.8M
2022
123
42
81
$25.9M
2023
90
70
20
$18.4M
2024
92
72
20
$13.5M
Permit volume increased 44% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.5 minutes
Drive Alone
77.7%
Carpool
13.2%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
1.5%
Work from Home
5.4%
Other
2.1%
Based on 26,558 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. 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 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 sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Minot 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, 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.