City · Anoka County, Minnesota

Lino Lakes, Minnesota

Lino Lakes is a city in Anoka County, Minnesota, part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area. It has 22,113 residents. Lino Lakes, Minnesota has a quality-of-life score of 90 out of 100 (very high), ranking #1,569 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Minnesota it ranks #121 of 364 cities and towns. It ranks best on high school diploma or higher (high), child poverty rate (low) and math scores (high). It ranks worst on restaurants and bars (low), grocery stores (low) and child care cost burden (high).

90Very high

Quality-of-life score: #1,569 of 15,651 cities and towns
Minnesota: #121 of 364 in MN
Population: 22,113 (2020-2024)
Land area: 28 mi²
Density: 783.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 2737322

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 76 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.

Safety81#2,932/15,637
Economy91#1,478/15,631
Housing57#6,455/14,977
Health83#2,703/15,609
Healthcare68#5,065/15,650
Environment70#4,655/15,453
Education93#1,050/15,649
Infrastructure86#2,181/15,650
Community88#1,952/15,651
Leisure & amenities22#12,180/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

High school diploma or higher · high96.9%
98/100Minnesota 93.9%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Child poverty rate · low4.6%
95/100Minnesota 9.6%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Math scores · high3.45
94/100Minnesota 3.30United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAnoka County value
Poverty rate · low2.7%
94/100Minnesota 9.3%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Loneliness · low30.6%
94/100Minnesota 32.1%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Voter turnout · high77.7%
93/100Minnesota 77.0%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionAnoka County value

Weaknesses

Restaurants and bars · low4.9 /10k
10/100Minnesota 8.6 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsAnoka County value
Grocery stores · low0.9 /10k
10/100Minnesota 1.6 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsAnoka County value
Child care cost burden · high38.7%
12/100Minnesota 29.9%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAnoka County value
Social associations · low6.2 /10k
13/100Minnesota 12.2 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAnoka County value
Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
14/100Minnesota 0.6 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesAnoka County value
Comfortable days · low23.6%
15/100Minnesota 23.6%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationAnoka County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
31.8% (2015-2019) → 61.1% (2020-2024)
+29 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
New homes permittedWorsening
12.4 /1k (2021) → 5.8 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−53%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
24.8% (2015-2019) → 33.8% (2020-2024)
+9 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.5× (2015-2019) → 3.2× (2020-2024)
+26%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Public transit commutersWorsening
2.9% (2015-2019) → 0.5% (2020-2024)
−2.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B08301US 5.0% → 3.2%
Child poverty rateWorsening
2.4% (2015-2019) → 4.6% (2020-2024)
+2.3 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, Lino Lakes, Minnesota improved on 1 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 4. 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.

Improved1

Household income+10%$115,368 → $127,181

Declined4

Rent burden+29 points31.8% → 61.1%
Unemployment+2.1 points1.9% → 4.0%
Inequality+0.0320.349 → 0.381
Price / income+0.7×2.5× → 3.2×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Lino Lakes, Minnesota between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	27.1 min2015-2019	24.8 min2020-2024	−2.2 min	Within the margin of error	73%
Bachelor's degree or higher	44.9%2015-2019	43.1%2020-2024	−1.8 points	Within the margin of error	17%
Broadband subscriptions	93.7%2015-2019	95.4%2020-2024	+1.7 points	Within the margin of error	14%
Child poverty rate	2.4%2015-2019	4.6%2020-2024	+2.3 points	Within the margin of error	29%
Effective property tax rate	1.08%2015-2019	1.02%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	27%
High school diploma or higher	97.5%2015-2019	96.9%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Home price to income ratio	2.5×2015-2019	3.2×2020-2024	+0.7×	Declined	38%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3492015-2019	0.3812020-2024	+0.032	Declined	26%
Median household income	$115,3682015-2019	$127,1812020-2024	+10%	Improved	17%
Poverty rate	2.0%2015-2019	2.7%2020-2024	+0.7 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Rent as share of income	24.8%2015-2019	33.8%2020-2024	+9 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Rent-burdened households	31.8%2015-2019	61.1%2020-2024	+29 points	Declined	3%
Unemployment rate	1.9%2015-2019	4.0%2020-2024	+2.1 points	Declined	16%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	1.7%2015-2019	2.5%2020-2024	+0.8 points	Within the margin of error	37%

“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 Lino Lakes, Minnesota five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Lino Lakes, 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, Lino Lakes, Minnesota itself moved −17 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

22,113 residents (±40)

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

7,685 households (±309)

Lino Lakes, Minnesota
Minnesota share

Under $25k5.5%†425
$25k–50k9.9%†760
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

7,685 households (±309)

Lino Lakes, Minnesota
Minnesota share

Own92%7,076
Rent7.9%†609

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

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

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

11,180 workers (±510)

Lino Lakes, Minnesota
Minnesota share

Drive alone71%7,973
Carpool3.9%†440
Public transit0.5%†59

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 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

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 Anoka County, the county holding most of Lino Lakes's residents.

Anoka County has 8,438 employer establishments, 226 for every 10,000 residents (0.91× the US rate of 248; 0.84× Minnesota's), with 123,486 paid employees at an average annual pay of $59,745. The Census Bureau also counts 28,915 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 8,438; 28,915 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 226; US 248 · Minnesota 268
Paid employees: 123,486
Average annual pay: $59,745; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	980	26.3	1.70×More than typical	7,834	$85,680	2,120
Ambulatory health care services	555	14.9	0.71×Fewer than typical	7,634	$71,391	1,052
Restaurants and other eating places	459	12.3	0.67×Fewer than typical	11,179	$21,722	98
Lessors of real estate	436	11.7	0.95×About typical	1,433	$41,236	2,326
Construction of buildings	371	9.9	1.31×More than typical	1,604	$79,819	912
Building finishing contractors	310	8.3	2.19×More than typical	1,636	$69,976	841
Services to buildings and dwellings	294	7.9	1.17×About typical	2,869	$47,087	1,301
Building equipment contractors	269	7.2	1.20×About typical	3,362	$92,773	270
Automotive repair and maintenance	250	6.7	1.33×More than typical	1,616	$54,189	328
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	249	6.7	2.12×More than typical	1,909	$83,042	449
Limited-service restaurants	240	6.4	0.80×About typical	5,513	$19,652	57
Real estate agents and brokers	237	6.4	1.30×More than typical	261	$54,935	772

Rank places for an industry Open Anoka County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 373,182 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 $1.2M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Lino Lakes, Minnesota: $54.35 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $1.2M; +119% vs FY2025
Per resident: $54.35; US $1,994
Sole-source: 2.4%; US 30%
Single offer: 42%; 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

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

56.5KFY2017
103KFY2018
218.4KFY2019
63KFY2020
186.5KFY2021
1.7MFY2022
413.5KFY2023
346.6K

Top industries (NAICS)

Scientific research and development services · 5417$577.5K48%
Other fabricated metal product manufacturing · 3329$495K41%
Electrical equipment manufacturing · 3353$76.8K6.4%
Legal services · 5411$28.4K2.4%
Building equipment contractors · 2382$10.6K0.9%
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing · 3345

Largest awards whose ZIP code lies mostly in Lino Lakes, Minnesota

SBIR PHASE II$599.9K
EXERGI PREDICTIVE LLC· Anoka County, MN· Research & development· May 7, 2026 – May 7, 2026· N6833526C0230
THIS DELIVERY ORDER IS BEING WRITTEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF IDIQ 70US0926D70092078 FOR 9MM PISTOL CALIBER CARBINE RIFLES FOR THE ROWLEY TRAINING CENTER (RTC). THE POP IS 120-DAYS FROM EXECUTION OF AWARD.$599.9K
J.P. ENTERPRISES, INC.· Anoka County, MN· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Aug 12, 2026 – Aug 12, 2026· 70US0926F3OTH3032
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.$224.3K
EXERGI PREDICTIVE LLC· Anoka County, MN· Research & development· Feb 4, 2025 – Oct 20, 2025· N6833525C0186

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 Lino Lakes, Minnesota, so they do not add up across cities.

Lino Lakes, Minnesota's figures are part of those of Anoka County, MN ($257.3M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.5% of that total.

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

See federal money in Anoka 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.

Lino Lakes, Minnesota is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

Amy KlobucharD-

County

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

Anoka County89100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI93

Other cities and towns in Anoka 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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