City · Lyon County, Minnesota

Minneota, Minnesota

Minneota is a city in Lyon County, Minnesota, part of the Marshall, MN metro area. It has 1,594 residents. Minneota, Minnesota has a quality-of-life score of 83 out of 100 (very high), ranking #2,627 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Minnesota it ranks #200 of 364 cities and towns. It ranks best on preventable hospital stays (low), grocery stores (high) and social associations (high). It ranks worst on mental health care shortage (high), pharmacies (low) and new business applications (low).

83Very high

Quality-of-life score: #2,627 of 15,651 cities and towns
Minnesota: #200 of 364 in MN
Population: 1,594 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,098.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 2743126

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 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.

Safety77#3,643/15,637
Economy63#5,752/15,631
Housing60#6,051/14,977
Health69#4,859/15,609
Healthcare58#6,618/15,650
Environment74#3,990/15,453
Education81#2,955/15,649
Infrastructure51#7,597/15,650
Community91#1,423/15,651
Leisure & amenities76#3,808/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Preventable hospital stays · low1,055 /100k
99/100Minnesota 2,419 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLyon County value
Grocery stores · high3.9 /10k
98/100Minnesota 1.6 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLyon County value
Social associations · high16.1 /10k
94/100Minnesota 12.2 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLyon County value
Property crime rate · low405 /100k
93/100Minnesota 1,412 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureLyon County value
Public libraries · high1.9 /10k
91/100Minnesota 0.6 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesLyon County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low5.9 µg/m³
91/100Minnesota 6.3 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyLyon County value

Weaknesses

Mental health care shortage · high19.0
4/100Minnesota 8.0United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationLyon County value
Pharmacies · low0.8 /10k
7/100Minnesota 1.7 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLyon County value
New business applications · low8.2 /1k
8/100Minnesota 12.7 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauLyon County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high113 mi
8/100Minnesota 32 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauLyon County value
New homes permitted · low0.0 /1k
13/100Minnesota 3.9 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Distance to an airport · high75 mi
20/100Minnesota 43 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauLyon County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,282 (2015-2019) → 1,594 (2020-2024)
+24%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedWorsening
0.8 /1k (2021) → 0.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
81.6% (2015-2019) → 89.0% (2020-2024)
+7.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.7× (2015-2019) → 2.2× (2020-2024)
+29%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
49.5% (2015-2019) → 44.2% (2020-2024)
−5.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
12.4% (2015-2019) → 7.3% (2020-2024)
−5.1 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, Minneota, Minnesota improved on 1 of 12 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.

Improved1

Broadband+7.4 points81.6% → 89.0%

Declined1

Inequality+0.0680.322 → 0.390

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Minneota, Minnesota between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.8 min2015-2019	17.4 min2020-2024	−3.4 min	Within the margin of error	82%
Bachelor's degree or higher	20.9%2015-2019	22.5%2020-2024	+1.6 points	Within the margin of error	39%
Broadband subscriptions	81.6%2015-2019	89.0%2020-2024	+7.4 points	Improved	46%
Effective property tax rate	1.32%2015-2019	1.17%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	46%
High school diploma or higher	91.6%2015-2019	91.7%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	34%
Home price to income ratio	1.7×2015-2019	2.2×2020-2024	+0.5×	Within the margin of error	49%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3222015-2019	0.3902020-2024	+0.068	Declined	11%
Median household income	$64,5002015-2019	$74,0912020-2024	+15%	Within the margin of error	23%
Poverty rate	8.2%2015-2019	6.7%2020-2024	−1.4 points	Within the margin of error	57%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	29.2%2015-2019	27.3%2020-2024	−1.9 points	Within the margin of error	68%
Rent-burdened households	49.5%2015-2019	44.2%2020-2024	−5.3 points	Within the margin of error	73%

“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 Minneota, Minnesota five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Minneota, 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, Minneota, Minnesota itself moved −1.5 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

1,594 residents (±270)

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

564 households (±90)

Minneota, Minnesota
Minnesota share

Under $25k14%†77
$25k–50k24%†138
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

564 households (±90)

Minneota, Minnesota
Minnesota share

Own79%444
Rent21%†120

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.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

729 workers (±135)

Minneota, Minnesota
Minnesota share

Drive alone75%545
Carpool11%†83
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 Marshall, 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 Lyon County, the county holding most of Minneota's residents.

Lyon County has 814 employer establishments, 318 for every 10,000 residents (1.28× the US rate of 248; 1.18× Minnesota's), with 12,732 paid employees at an average annual pay of $52,047. The Census Bureau also counts 1,821 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 814; 1,821 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 318; US 248 · Minnesota 268
Paid employees: 12,732
Average annual pay: $52,047; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	55	21.5	1.39×More than typical	246	$69,041	106
Ambulatory health care services	47	18.4	0.88×About typical	897	$49,273	35
Restaurants and other eating places	40	15.6	0.85×About typical	705	$18,424	4
Building equipment contractors	25	9.8	1.62×More than typical	149	$62,564	9
Construction of buildings	25	9.8	1.29×More than typical	71	$49,183	53
Religious organizations	24	9.4	1.69×More than typical	118	$18,466	—
Truck transportation	23	9	1.78×More than typical	139	$52,475	83
Insurance agencies and brokerages	22	8.6	1.96×More than typical	61	$64,426	48
Lessors of real estate	22	8.6	0.70×Fewer than typical	108	$38,074	245
Limited-service restaurants	22	8.6	1.07×About typical	416	$17,623	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	20	7.8	1.55×More than typical	68	$54,691	32
Services to buildings and dwellings	19	7.4	1.10×About typical	112	$35,071	116

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 25,587 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: Minneota is mostly in Lyon County.

See federal money in Lyon 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.

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

House

Michelle FischbachR-MN-7 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 0.4%

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.

Lyon County95100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Marshall, MN96

Other cities and towns in Lyon 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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