Census-designated place · Clark County, Washington

Minnehaha, Washington

Minnehaha is a census-designated place in Clark County, Washington, part of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro area. It has 11,482 residents. Minnehaha, Washington has a quality-of-life score of 68 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,047 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Washington it ranks #140 of 395 cities and towns. It ranks best on distance to an airport (low), income inequality (Gini index) (low) and median Air Quality Index (low). It ranks worst on time spent in the emergency room (high), public libraries (low) and depression (high).

68High

Quality-of-life score: #5,047 of 15,651 cities and towns
Washington: #140 of 395 in WA
Population: 11,482 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 5,195.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 5346125

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.

Safety48#8,049/15,637
Economy82#2,858/15,631
Housing46#8,099/14,977
Health52#7,458/15,609
Healthcare54#7,145/15,650
Environment89#1,748/15,453
Education40#9,387/15,649
Infrastructure92#1,320/15,650
Community59#6,464/15,651
Leisure & amenities33#10,410/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Minnehaha, Washington ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Clark 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

Distance to an airport · low8 mi
97/100Washington 29 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauClark County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.339
95/100Washington 0.469United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Median Air Quality Index · low33
91/100Washington 382025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyClark County value
Mental health providers · high509 /100k
87/100Washington 568 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteClark County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Washington 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteClark County value
New business applications · high18.5 /1k
85/100Washington 17.8 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauClark County value

Weaknesses

Time spent in the emergency room · high267 min
1/100Washington 156 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesClark County value
Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
5/100Washington 0.5 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesClark County value
Depression · high28.1%
11/100Washington 25.5%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Students per teacher · high18.3×
13/100Washington 17.9×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsClark County value
Pharmacies · low1.0 /10k
14/100Washington 1.0 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsClark County value
Drug overdose deaths · high25.7 /100k
16/100Washington 32.7 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataClark County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
12,353 (2015-2019) → 11,482 (2020-2024)
−7.1%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
22.9% (2015-2019) → 30.6% (2020-2024)
+7.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Child poverty rateImproving
16.3% (2015-2019) → 9.4% (2020-2024)
−6.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.3× (2015-2019) → 4.4× (2020-2024)
+33%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
87.4% (2015-2019) → 93.0% (2020-2024)
+5.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Poverty rateImproving
9.9% (2015-2019) → 5.6% (2020-2024)
−4.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

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, Minnehaha, Washington improved on 1 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 11 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+19%$84,568 → $100,668

Declined1

Price / income+1.1×3.3× → 4.4×

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Minnehaha, Washington between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.0 min2015-2019	20.2 min2020-2024	−4.8 min	Within the margin of error	89%
Bachelor's degree or higher	22.9%2015-2019	30.6%2020-2024	+7.7 points	Within the margin of error	82%
Broadband subscriptions	87.4%2015-2019	93.0%2020-2024	+5.6 points	Within the margin of error	35%
Effective property tax rate	0.97%2015-2019	0.77%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	59%
High school diploma or higher	91.6%2015-2019	94.5%2020-2024	+2.9 points	Within the margin of error	67%
Home price to income ratio	3.3×2015-2019	4.4×2020-2024	+1.1×	Declined	18%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3572015-2019	0.3392020-2024	−0.018	Within the margin of error	66%
Median household income	$84,5682015-2019	$100,6682020-2024	+19%	Improved	31%
Poverty rate	9.9%2015-2019	5.6%2020-2024	−4.3 points	Within the margin of error	77%
Rent as share of income	27.5%2015-2019	28.2%2020-2024	+0.7 points	Within the margin of error	49%
Rent-burdened households	41.3%2015-2019	45.2%2020-2024	+3.9 points	Within the margin of error	41%
Unemployment rate	7.1%2015-2019	6.8%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	57%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	8.6%2015-2019	10.7%2020-2024	+2.1 points	Within the margin of error	25%

“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 Minnehaha, Washington five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Minnehaha, Washington 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, Minnehaha, Washington itself moved +2.7 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

11,482 residents (±1,485)

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

4,679 households (±558)

Minnehaha, Washington
Washington share

Under $25k7.8%†367
$25k–50k8.3%†389
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

4,679 households (±558)

Minnehaha, Washington
Washington share

Own76%3,574
Rent24%1,105

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

5,974 workers (±982)

Minnehaha, Washington
Washington share

Drive alone76%4,548
Carpool3.9%†233
Public transit1.4%†

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 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA

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 Clark County, the county holding most of Minnehaha's residents.

Clark County has 12,552 employer establishments, 240 for every 10,000 residents (0.97× the US rate of 248; 0.93× Washington's), with 159,914 paid employees at an average annual pay of $66,687. The Census Bureau also counts 41,645 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 12,552; 41,645 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 240; US 248 · Washington 258
Paid employees: 159,914
Average annual pay: $66,687; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	1,335	25.6	1.65×More than typical	12,550	$72,384	1,904
Ambulatory health care services	888	17	0.82×About typical	11,787	$82,026	1,780
Restaurants and other eating places	752	14.4	0.78×Fewer than typical	13,991	$26,989	126
Lessors of real estate	701	13.4	1.09×About typical	2,582	$64,845	3,579
Construction of buildings	661	12.7	1.67×More than typical	4,405	$75,724	1,440
Truck transportation	445	8.5	1.69×More than typical	2,312	$63,822	2,048
Building finishing contractors	403	7.7	2.03×More than typical	2,097	$60,949	786
Building equipment contractors	388	7.4	1.24×About typical	5,324	$76,605	299
Services to buildings and dwellings	383	7.3	1.09×About typical	2,476	$44,121	1,747
Offices of other health practitioners	361	6.9	1.14×About typical	2,053	$48,651	1,055
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	351	6.7	2.13×More than typical	3,151	$65,621	238
Management, scientific and technical consulting	346	6.6	0.99×About typical	1,600	$85,768	1,770

Rank places for an industry Open Clark County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 521,954 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 $23.2M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Minnehaha, Washington: $2,025 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $23.2M; +140% vs FY2025
Per resident: $2,025; US $1,994
Sole-source: 15%; US 30%
Single offer: 15%; 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

Department of the Army$14.1M61%
Department of Veterans Affairs$4.9M21%
Forest Service$3.4M15%
Federal Highway Administration$735.4K3.2%
National Park Service$268.2K1.2%
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education$10.7K0.0%
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center$5,7010.0%
Departmental Offices$4,2060.0%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

9.2MFY2017
8.7MFY2018
5.6MFY2019
10.7MFY2020
10.5MFY2021
7.2MFY2022
7.9MFY2023
9.6M

Top industries (NAICS)

Ship and boat building · 3366$12M52%
Building equipment contractors · 2382$2.9M12%
Support activities for forestry · 1153$2.3M10%
Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$2.2M9.3%
Nonresidential building construction · 2362$1.9M8.2%
Computer systems design and related services · 5415

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 Minnehaha, Washington, so they do not add up across cities.

Minnehaha, Washington's figures are part of those of Clark County, WA ($213.6M in FY2026), never added to them: 11% of that total.

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

See federal money in Clark 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.

Minnehaha, Washington is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Marie Gluesenkamp PerezD-WA-3 · 100% of residentsWith party 70%Missed 1.3%

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.

Clark County78100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA80

Other cities and towns in Clark 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
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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