City · Anoka County, Minnesota

St. Francis, Minnesota

St. Francis is a city in Anoka County, Minnesota, part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area. It has 8,372 residents. St. Francis, Minnesota has a quality-of-life score of 81 out of 100 (very high), ranking #2,917 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Minnesota it ranks #226 of 364 cities and towns. It ranks best on income inequality (Gini index) (low), high school diploma or higher (high) and math scores (high). It ranks worst on restaurants and bars (low), grocery stores (low) and child care cost burden (high).

81Very high

Quality-of-life score: #2,917 of 15,651 cities and towns
Minnesota: #226 of 364 in MN
Population: 8,372 (2020-2024)
Land area: 23 mi²
Density: 359.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 2756950

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
Economy84#2,475/15,631
Housing76#3,582/14,977
Health64#5,594/15,609
Healthcare61#6,070/15,650
Environment70#4,655/15,453
Education71#4,496/15,649
Infrastructure60#6,278/15,650
Community83#2,704/15,651
Leisure & amenities22#12,180/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where St. Francis, 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

Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.324
99/100Minnesota 0.452United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
High school diploma or higher · high95.4%
95/100Minnesota 93.9%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Math scores · high3.45
94/100Minnesota 3.30United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAnoka County value
Voter turnout · high77.7%
93/100Minnesota 77.0%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionAnoka County value
Food environment index · high9.2
92/100Minnesota 9.1United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAnoka County value
Traffic deaths · low5.7 /100k
91/100Minnesota 7.7 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataAnoka 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
Depression · high27.6%
15/100Minnesota 25.1%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Trends

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

PopulationRising
7,652 (2015-2019) → 8,372 (2020-2024)
+9.4%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
29.3% (2015-2019) → 37.6% (2020-2024)
+8.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
88.9% (2015-2019) → 95.9% (2020-2024)
+7 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
New homes permittedWorsening
6.7 /1k (2021) → 4.5 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−32%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Median household incomeImproving
$85,219 (2015-2019) → $111,198 (2020-2024)
+30%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
High school diploma or higherImproving
91.3% (2015-2019) → 95.5% (2020-2024)
+4.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

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, St. Francis, Minnesota improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 10 moved within the margin of error and 1 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

Household income+30%$85,219 → $111,198
Broadband+7 points88.9% → 95.9%

Declined1

Price / income+0.4×2.5× → 2.9×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of St. Francis, Minnesota between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	34.4 min2015-2019	32.3 min2020-2024	−2.1 min	Within the margin of error	72%
Bachelor's degree or higher	16.5%2015-2019	17.5%2020-2024	+1 points	Within the margin of error	34%
Broadband subscriptions	88.9%2015-2019	95.9%2020-2024	+7 points	Improved	44%
Child poverty rate	12.7%2015-2019	13.0%2020-2024	+0.3 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Effective property tax rate	1.05%2015-2019	0.83%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Little change	62%
High school diploma or higher	91.3%2015-2019	95.5%2020-2024	+4.2 points	Within the margin of error	77%
Home price to income ratio	2.5×2015-2019	2.9×2020-2024	+0.4×	Declined	53%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3232015-2019	0.3242020-2024	+0.001	Within the margin of error	50%
Median household income	$85,2192015-2019	$111,1982020-2024	+30%	Improved	56%
Poverty rate	7.7%2015-2019	7.1%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	49%
Rent as share of income	21.5%2015-2019	18.8%2020-2024	−2.7 points	Within the margin of error	73%
Rent-burdened households	29.3%2015-2019	37.6%2020-2024	+8.2 points	Within the margin of error	28%
Unemployment rate	3.5%2015-2019	2.4%2020-2024	−1.1 points	Within the margin of error	71%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	5.2%2015-2019	5.3%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	45%

“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 St. Francis, Minnesota five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of St. Francis, 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, St. Francis, Minnesota itself moved +2.2 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

8,372 residents (±28)

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

2,989 households (±156)

St. Francis, Minnesota
Minnesota share

Under $25k8.1%†241
$25k–50k10%†303
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,989 households (±156)

St. Francis, Minnesota
Minnesota share

Own86%2,576
Rent14%†413

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

4,496 workers (±274)

St. Francis, Minnesota
Minnesota share

Drive alone78%3,528
Carpool9.3%†418
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 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 St. Francis'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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in St. Francis, Minnesota: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; 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

4.3KFY2021

What was bought

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 St. Francis, Minnesota, so they do not add up across cities.

St. Francis, Minnesota's figures are part of those of Anoka County, MN and Isanti County, MN ($258.6M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: St. Francis 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.

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

House

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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