What is the population of Crookston city?

Crookston city has 7,388 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #124 of 914 in Minnesota.

What is the median household income in Crookston city?

Median household income in Crookston city is $54,003 a year, 31.2% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Crookston city?

Median gross rent is $827 a month and the median home value is $160,700, so rent absorbs about 18.4% of median household income.

Is Crookston city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Crookston city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Crookston, MN population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Crookston, Minnesota (Crookston, MN — Census place “Crookston city”) is 7,388 residents, ranking #124 of 914 places in Minnesota. Median household income is $54,003, the median home is worth $160,700 and median gross rent runs $827 a month. Looking for the Crookston Minnesota ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Crookston, MN: 56716.

Population: 7,388Crookston city residents
Median household income: $54,003Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $160,700Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $827Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 41.5 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 59%Owner-occupied households

Crookston ZIP codes (Minnesota)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Crookston.

The Crookston MN ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

56716

What the numbers mean in Crookston city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Crookston city median would spend about 18.4% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 3.0× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 17% of residents and 59% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Crookston city, MN in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Crookston city is a mid-size town in Minnesota, with 7,388 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #124 of 914 ranked by population — larger than 86% of them. The median age here is 41.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Crookston city earn a median of $54,003 a year, 31.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 28% below the $75,469 median for the 361 Minnesota cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 17% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Crookston city is valued at $160,700, 47% below the national figure and 33% below the $240,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $827 a month, 41.2% below the national figure, or roughly $9,924 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.4% 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×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 59% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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.

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What is the population of Crookston city?: Crookston city has 7,388 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #124 of 914 in Minnesota.
What is the median household income in Crookston city?: Median household income in Crookston city is $54,003 a year, 31.2% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Crookston city?: Median gross rent is $827 a month and the median home value is $160,700, so rent absorbs about 18.4% of median household income.
Is Crookston city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Crookston city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Crookston city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.