Midwest · Minnesota · pop 309K
Saint Paul, MN
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in MN, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,057 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,224 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,390 left over.
Home prices are within reach relative to local pay — the median home ($300,000) is about 4.2× the median household income.
Expect summer highs near 84°F, winter lows around 8°F, and about 198 sunny days a year.
Tradeoff: this is a quieter market with fewer restaurants and entertainment options per resident.
The Saint Paul fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,667/mo
Typical rent
$1,440/mo
Home value ÷ income
4.2×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,230/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,440/mo
- Median home value
- $300,000
- Median household income
- $71,000
- Population
- 309,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 3.5%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 1.0%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 650
- Property crime rate
- 3,200
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 84°F
- Avg. winter low
- 8°F
- Sunny days / year
- 198
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈5/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈40/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈6/yr
- Annual rain
- 32"
- Annual snow
- 52"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+40
- Int'l airport
- ≈10 mi
- Walkability
- 60/100
- Disaster risk
- 40/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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