Battle Lake, MN population, income and ZIP codes

Battle Lake city is a very small community in Minnesota, with 794 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #402 of 914 ranked by population — larger than 56% of them. The median age here is 55.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Battle Lake city earn a median of $58,125 a year, 26% below the national figure of $78,538 and 23% below the $75,469 median for the 361 Minnesota cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 5.3% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Battle Lake city is valued at $221,000, 27.2% below the national figure and 8% below the $240,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $920 a month, 34.6% below the national figure, or roughly $11,040 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 62.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 55.8 puts Battle Lake city well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 794 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Battle Lake city against its county rather than against national figures.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.