City · Ottawa County, Kansas

Minneapolis, Kansas

Minneapolis is a city in Ottawa County, Kansas, part of the Salina, KS metro area. It has 2,043 residents. Minneapolis, Kansas has a quality-of-life score of 52 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #7,564 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Kansas it ranks #123 of 202 cities and towns. It ranks best on child care cost burden (low), drug overdose deaths (low) and students per teacher (low). It ranks worst on access to exercise opportunities (low), average weekly wage (low) and pharmacies (low).

52Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #7,564 of 15,651 cities and towns
Kansas: #123 of 202 in KS
Population: 2,043 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 1,114.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 2047075

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety53#7,369/15,637
Economy46#8,450/15,631
Housing83#2,578/14,977
Health40#9,360/15,609
Healthcare50#7,892/15,650
Environment53#7,325/15,453
Education55#7,026/15,649
Infrastructure47#8,360/15,650
Community67#5,215/15,651
Leisure & amenities9#14,236/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Minneapolis, Kansas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Ottawa County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Child care cost burden · low16.6%
99/100Kansas 18.9%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOttawa County value
Drug overdose deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Kansas 15.3 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100k2024Centers for Disease Control and PreventionOttawa County value
Students per teacher · low10.1×
98/100Kansas 13.3×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsOttawa County value
Public libraries · high3.4 /10k
97/100Kansas 1.3 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesOttawa County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Kansas 4.5 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataOttawa County value
Loneliness · low31.2%
93/100Kansas 31.5%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Access to exercise opportunities · low2.3%
0/100Kansas 80.3%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOttawa County value
Average weekly wage · low$807
1/100Kansas $1,216United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsOttawa County value
Pharmacies · low0.0 /10k
1/100Kansas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsOttawa County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Kansas 4.7 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyOttawa County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Kansas 1.0 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsOttawa County value
Comfortable days · low22.9%
7/100Kansas 25.1%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationOttawa County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
1,795 (2015-2019) → 2,043 (2020-2024)
+14%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
69.7% (2015-2019) → 89.8% (2020-2024)
+20 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.8× (2015-2019) → 2.5× (2020-2024)
+38%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateImproving
10.2% (2015-2019) → 4.4% (2020-2024)
−5.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
5.5% (2015-2019) → 10.2% (2020-2024)
+4.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Unemployment rateWorsening
0.7% (2015-2019) → 5.3% (2020-2024)
+4.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Minneapolis, Kansas improved on 2 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved2

Broadband+20 points69.7% → 89.8%
Household income+15%$50,286 → $57,702

Declined1

Price / income+0.7×1.8× → 2.5×

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Minneapolis, Kansas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	18.1 min2015-2019	20.8 min2020-2024	+2.7 min	Within the margin of error	21%
Bachelor's degree or higher	23.2%2015-2019	25.3%2020-2024	+2.1 points	Within the margin of error	44%
Broadband subscriptions	69.7%2015-2019	89.8%2020-2024	+20 points	Improved	90%
Effective property tax rate	2.16%2015-2019	1.69%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	89%
High school diploma or higher	95.7%2015-2019	95.2%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Home price to income ratio	1.8×2015-2019	2.5×2020-2024	+0.7×	Declined	37%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3822015-2019	0.4382020-2024	+0.056	Within the margin of error	14%
Median household income	$50,2862015-2019	$57,7022020-2024	+15%	Improved	23%
Poverty rate	9.7%2015-2019	10.1%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	39%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	24.8%2015-2019	27.8%2020-2024	+3 points	Within the margin of error	33%
Rent-burdened households	39.6%2015-2019	44.1%2020-2024	+4.5 points	Within the margin of error	39%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Minneapolis, Kansas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Minneapolis, Kansas in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Minneapolis, Kansas itself moved −8.3 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

2,043 residents (±241)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

903 households (±104)

Minneapolis, Kansas
Kansas share

Under $25k22%†200
$25k–50k19%†169
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

903 households (±104)

Minneapolis, Kansas
Kansas share

Own63%572
Rent37%331

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

909 workers (±159)

Minneapolis, Kansas
Kansas share

Drive alone84%763
Carpool6.1%†55
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Salina, KS

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Ottawa County, the county holding most of Minneapolis's residents.

Ottawa County has 135 employer establishments, 232 for every 10,000 residents (0.94× the US rate of 248; 0.90× Kansas's), with 971 paid employees at an average annual pay of $43,098. The Census Bureau also counts 490 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 135; 490 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 232; US 248 · Kansas 258
Paid employees: 971
Average annual pay: $43,098; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Ottawa County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	7	12.1	0.58×Too few to compare	49	$29,837	16
Insurance agencies and brokerages	7	12.1	2.74×Too few to compare	32	$41,375	13
Religious organizations	7	12.1	2.17×Too few to compare	19	$15,368	—
Truck transportation	7	12.1	2.38×Too few to compare	18	$42,444	33
Automotive repair and maintenance	6	10.3	2.05×Too few to compare	13	$42,462	11
Specialty trade contractors	6	10.3	0.67×Too few to compare	16	$32,000	37
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	5	8.6	2.12×Too few to compare	14	$21,714	7
Banks and credit unions	5	8.6	2.67×Too few to compare	35	$54,514	—
Full-service restaurants	5	8.6	1.12×Too few to compare	46	$16,152	—
Gasoline stations	5	8.6	2.66×Too few to compare	45	$51,356	—
Restaurants and other eating places	5	8.6	0.47×Too few to compare	46	$16,152	—
Construction of buildings	4	6.9	0.91×Too few to compare	6	$12,333	16

Rank places for an industry Open Ottawa County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 5,807 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Minneapolis is mostly in Ottawa County.

See federal money in Ottawa County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Minneapolis, Kansas is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Tracey MannR-KS-1 · 100% of residentsWith party 100%Missed 0.3%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Ottawa County63100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Salina, KS69

Other cities and towns in Ottawa County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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