MN metros

Cost of living across major MN metropolitan areas.

What living in MN costs

Across the 2 MN metros we track, the typical cost-of-living index is 104.3 against a national metro median of 95.7 — about 9% pricier than the typical US metro. That ranks MN 40 of the 48 states we cover, counting from the cheapest.

The state is not uniform: Duluth, MN is the cheapest metro at 87.2, while Minneapolis, MN runs 104.3 — a spread of 20% between them.

A typical MN home costs $393,774, or about 4.2× median household income, and typical rent is $1,721/mo.

Taxes in MN

MN levies a state income tax on top of the federal one. Effective property tax runs about 1.1% of home value in a typical MN metro, and combined state and local sales tax is around 8.1%.

Property tax is the one that scales with housing, so it bites hardest in the pricier metros above. Per-metro figures are on each metro page.

Metro	COL index	Median home	Median rent
Minneapolis, MN	104.3	$393,774	$1,721
Duluth, MN	87.2	$264,350	$1,381

Cities & towns in MN (76)

Local property tax, home values and school scores for each place.

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