Midwest · Minnesota · pop 425K
Minneapolis, MN
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in MN, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,057 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,207 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,407 left over.
There's plenty to do — roughly 33 restaurants, arts, and recreation spots per 10k residents.
Home prices are within reach relative to local pay — the median home ($330,000) is about 4.3× the median household income.
Tradeoff: reported crime rates are higher than most cities here, so research specific neighborhoods before deciding.
The Minneapolis fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,650/mo
Typical rent
$1,420/mo
Home value ÷ income
4.3×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,310/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,420/mo
- Median home value
- $330,000
- Median household income
- $76,000
- Population
- 425,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 2.9%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 0.9%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 1,100
- Property crime rate
- 4,200
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 84°F
- Avg. winter low
- 8°F
- Sunny days / year
- 198
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈6/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈40/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈6/yr
- Annual rain
- 32"
- Annual snow
- 51"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+42
- Int'l airport
- ≈12 mi
- Walkability
- 71/100
- Disaster risk
- 40/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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