City · Itasca County, Minnesota

Coleraine, Minnesota

Coleraine is a city in Itasca County, Minnesota, part of the Grand Rapids, MN metro area. It has 2,150 residents. Coleraine, Minnesota has a quality-of-life score of 73 out of 100 (high), ranking #4,264 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Minnesota it ranks #300 of 364 cities and towns. It ranks best on fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (low), hot days (low) and homicide rate (low). It ranks worst on rent as share of income (high), distance to an airport (high) and broadband subscriptions (low).

73High

Quality-of-life score: #4,264 of 15,651 cities and towns
Minnesota: #300 of 364 in MN
Population: 2,150 (2020-2024)
Land area: 15 mi²
Density: 139.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 2712502

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 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.

Safety82#2,865/15,637
Economy56#6,914/15,631
Housing38#9,302/14,977
Health48#8,114/15,609
Healthcare66#5,397/15,650
Environment97#525/15,453
Education73#4,279/15,649
Infrastructure16#13,089/15,650
Community83#2,725/15,651
Leisure & amenities77#3,626/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Coleraine, Minnesota ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Itasca 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

Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low4.4 µg/m³
99/100Minnesota 6.3 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyItasca County value
Hot days · low2 days
94/100Minnesota 5 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationItasca County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Minnesota 2.9 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataItasca County value
High school diploma or higher · high93.9%
93/100Minnesota 93.9%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Loneliness · low30.6%
91/100Minnesota 32.1%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Property crime rate · low515 /100k
89/100Minnesota 1,412 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationItasca County value

Weaknesses

Rent as share of income · high51.0%
2/100Minnesota 29.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071At least this value: the publisher's top bracket is open-ended
Distance to an airport · high157 mi
2/100Minnesota 43 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauItasca County value
Broadband subscriptions · low80.7%
5/100Minnesota 91.6%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Drought exposure · high91%
6/100Minnesota 36%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAItasca County value
Comfortable days · low23.1%
9/100Minnesota 23.6%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationItasca County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high90 mi
12/100Minnesota 32 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauItasca County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,665 (2015-2019) → 2,150 (2020-2024)
+29%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedImproving
0.6 /1k (2021) → 2.8 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+379%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
72.5% (2015-2019) → 57.1% (2020-2024)
−15 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$45,885 (2015-2019) → $74,716 (2020-2024)
+63%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
69.2% (2015-2019) → 80.7% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Child poverty rateImproving
25.4% (2015-2019) → 15.6% (2020-2024)
−9.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%

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, Coleraine, Minnesota improved on 3 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 10 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.

Improved3

Unemployment−6.5 points9.6% → 3.1%
Household income+63%$45,885 → $74,716
Broadband+11 points69.2% → 80.7%

Declined1

Rent / income+9 points42.0% → 51.0%

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Coleraine, Minnesota between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	18.7 min2015-2019	18.9 min2020-2024	+0.2 min	Within the margin of error	45%
Bachelor's degree or higher	24.2%2015-2019	26.2%2020-2024	+2.1 points	Within the margin of error	44%
Broadband subscriptions	69.2%2015-2019	80.7%2020-2024	+11 points	Improved	67%
Child poverty rate	25.4%2015-2019	15.6%2020-2024	−9.8 points	Within the margin of error	81%
Effective property tax rate	1.21%2015-2019	1.10%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	37%
High school diploma or higher	96.2%2015-2019	93.9%2020-2024	−2.3 points	Within the margin of error	14%
Home price to income ratio	3.0×2015-2019	2.8×2020-2024	−0.2×	Within the margin of error	86%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4072015-2019	0.4102020-2024	+0.002	Within the margin of error	49%
Median household income	$45,8852015-2019	$74,7162020-2024	+63%	Improved	92%
Poverty rate	17.6%2015-2019	10.7%2020-2024	−6.9 points	Within the margin of error	87%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	42.0%2015-2019	51.0%2020-2024	+9 points	Declined	11%
Unemployment rate	9.6%2015-2019	3.1%2020-2024	−6.5 points	Improved	97%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	7.7%2015-2019	4.8%2020-2024	−2.9 points	Within the margin of error	76%

“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 Coleraine, Minnesota five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Coleraine, Minnesota 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, Coleraine, Minnesota itself moved +0.8 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

2,150 residents (±263)

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

741 households (±93)

Coleraine, Minnesota
Minnesota share

Under $25k12%†89
$25k–50k18%†137
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

741 households (±93)

Coleraine, Minnesota
Minnesota share

Own89%661
Rent11%†80

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Rent (−13.1 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,006 workers (±166)

Coleraine, Minnesota
Minnesota share

Drive alone79%798
Carpool14%†142
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 Grand Rapids, MN

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 Itasca County, the county holding most of Coleraine's residents.

Itasca County has 1,175 employer establishments, 258 for every 10,000 residents (1.04× the US rate of 248; 0.96× Minnesota's), with 13,380 paid employees at an average annual pay of $51,665. The Census Bureau also counts 3,168 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,175; 3,168 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 258; US 248 · Minnesota 268
Paid employees: 13,380
Average annual pay: $51,665; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	106	23.3	1.51×More than typical	484	$84,764	241
Ambulatory health care services	86	18.9	0.91×About typical	1,327	$51,399	124
Restaurants and other eating places	61	13.4	0.73×Fewer than typical	1,036	$20,676	7
Construction of buildings	48	10.6	1.40×More than typical	160	$61,650	122
Religious organizations	38	8.4	1.51×More than typical	195	$18,108	—
Lessors of real estate	37	8.1	0.66×Fewer than typical	91	$54,626	298
Other specialty trade contractors	36	7.9	3.15×More than typical	247	$91,769	94
Building equipment contractors	34	7.5	1.24×About typical	143	$62,455	31
Full-service restaurants	34	7.5	0.97×About typical	493	$23,142	—
Gasoline stations	33	7.3	2.24×More than typical	374	$22,307	—
Offices of other health practitioners	29	6.4	1.05×About typical	172	$46,593	68
Services to buildings and dwellings	27	5.9	0.88×About typical	214	$45,874	139

Rank places for an industry Open Itasca County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 45,487 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

In FY2026, an estimated $95.1K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Coleraine, Minnesota: $44.21 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $95.1K; +20% vs FY2025
Per resident: $44.21; US $1,994
Sole-source: 2.5%; US 30%
Single offer: 6.7%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Forest Service$58.3K61%
Department of Veterans Affairs$30.3K32%
Department of the Army$4,2844.5%
National Aeronautics and Space Administration$6890.7%
U.S. Geological Survey$6830.7%
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$4750.5%
Department of State$3090.3%
Department of the Navy$94.810.1%

Top recipients

SMITH CLEANING LLC$41.7K44%
GRAND VILLAGE$28.2K30%
GERIT HANSON CONTRACTING, INC.$5,6566.0%
UNITED PARCEL SERVICE CO.$5,5155.8%
WILLIAM J. SCHWARTZ & SON, INCORPORATED$4,1674.4%

Spending by fiscal year

9.1KFY2017
23.4KFY2018
55.2KFY2019
43.3KFY2020
27.5KFY2021
28KFY2022
79.8KFY2023
78.8K

Top industries (NAICS)

Services to buildings and dwellings · 5617$43K45%
Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing facilities) · 6231$28.2K30%
Highway, street, and bridge construction · 2373$9,82310%
Couriers and express delivery services · 4921$5,5155.8%
Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing · 3391$2,0282.1%
Remediation and other waste management services · 5629

Largest awards whose ZIP code lies mostly in Coleraine, Minnesota

GRAND RAPIDS AND MARCELL, MN JANITORIAL CONTRACT$155.2K
SMITH CLEANING LLC· Itasca County, MN· Facilities & utilities· Aug 9, 2023 – Jul 31, 2026· 12444823P0100

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Coleraine, Minnesota, so they do not add up across cities.

Coleraine, Minnesota's figures are part of those of Itasca County, MN ($2.8M in FY2026), never added to them: 3.4% of that total.

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

See federal money in Itasca 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.

Coleraine, Minnesota is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Pete StauberR-MN-8 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 1.6%

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.

Itasca County85100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Grand Rapids, MN79

Other cities and towns in Itasca 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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