What is the population of Dawson city?

Dawson city has 1,441 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #304 of 914 in Minnesota.

What is the median household income in Dawson city?

Median household income in Dawson city is $70,286 a year, 10.5% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $618 a month and the median home value is $118,800, so rent absorbs about 10.6% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 1.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Dawson city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 10.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Dawson, MN population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Dawson, Minnesota (Dawson, MN — Census place “Dawson city”) is 1,441 residents, ranking #304 of 914 places in Minnesota. Median household income is $70,286, the median home is worth $118,800 and median gross rent runs $618 a month. Looking for the Dawson Minnesota ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Dawson, MN: 56232.

Population: 1,441Dawson city residents
Median household income: $70,286Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $118,800Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $618Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 44.4 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 79.9%Owner-occupied households

Dawson ZIP codes (Minnesota)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Dawson.

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

56232

What the numbers mean in Dawson city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Dawson city median would spend about 10.6% 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 1.7× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 7.2% of residents and 79.9% of households own their home.

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

Dawson city, MN in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Dawson city is a small town in Minnesota, with 1,441 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #304 of 914 ranked by population — larger than 66% of them. The median age here is 44.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Dawson city earn a median of $70,286 a year, 10.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 7% 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 7.2% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Dawson city is valued at $118,800, 60.8% below the national figure and 51% below the $240,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $618 a month, 56% below the national figure, or roughly $7,416 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 10.6% 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 1.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 79.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

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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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Dawson city?: Dawson city has 1,441 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #304 of 914 in Minnesota.
What is the median household income in Dawson city?: Median household income in Dawson city is $70,286 a year, 10.5% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Dawson city?: Median gross rent is $618 a month and the median home value is $118,800, so rent absorbs about 10.6% of median household income.
Is Dawson city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 1.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Dawson city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 10.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Dawson city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.