Top 10 Affordable Cities in Minnesota

Key Takeaways

Top 10 Affordable Cities in Minnesota from DataByArea city metrics.

Medina, MN leads this frozen snapshot for affordability.
The ranking rows are snapshotted at publish time, so shared URLs do not drift when source metrics refresh.
Each city link opens the underlying DataByArea dashboard for deeper local context.
The top three are Medina, Delano, and Byron.

These rows come from the frozen public snapshot for this URL.

Affordability snapshot rows
Rank	City	Population	Income	2BR Rent	Home Value	Property Tax	Electricity	Score
1	Medina, MN	6,858	$219,181	$1,421	$660,800	$6,967	15.08 cents/kWh	80.8
2	Delano, MN	6,712	$118,091	$909	$347,500	$3,637	15.08 cents/kWh	78.5
3	Byron, MN	6,510	$121,681	$1,079	$326,400	$4,461	15.08 cents/kWh	75.0
4	Carver, MN	5,935	$144,408	$1,347	$427,600	$4,748	15.08 cents/kWh	74.7
5	Rogers, MN	13,405	$159,638	$1,550	$437,900	$4,681	15.08 cents/kWh	74.5
6	Jordan, MN	6,704	$110,139	$1,102	$319,000	$3,079	15.08 cents/kWh	74.1
7	Orono, MN	8,205	$181,875	$1,653	$952,400	$8,410	15.08 cents/kWh	72.8
8	Dayton, MN	8,381	$137,383	$1,353	$510,600	$5,548	15.08 cents/kWh	72.3
9	Albertville, MN	8,066	$126,307	$1,385	$326,400	$3,598	15.08 cents/kWh	72.0
10	Farmington, MN	23,675	$118,556	$1,275	$345,100	$4,102	15.08 cents/kWh	71.4

Affordability compares household income with rent or estimated ownership costs plus property-tax burden.

Published 2026-06-26. Data updated 2026-06-26.

U.S. Census ACSCity population, income, housing value, rent, and property-tax context - Used where city-level fields are available in the DataByArea city database. Source
DataByArea city scoresNormalized city comparison scores - Scores are deterministic planning signals derived from public-source metrics. Source

Top 10 Affordable Cities in MinnesotaMedina, MN ranked in Top 10 Affordable Cities in Minnesota

Top 10 Affordable Cities in Minnesota - https://databyarea.com/rankings/cities/affordability/minnesota/