La Prairie, MN population, income and ZIP codes

La Prairie city is a very small community in Minnesota, with 621 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #454 of 914 ranked by population — larger than 50% of them. The median age here is 46.6 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 La Prairie city earn a median of $75,192 a year, 4.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of the $75,469 median for the 361 Minnesota cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 4.2% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in La Prairie city is valued at $202,300, 33.3% below the national figure and 16% below the $240,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,542 a month, 9.7% above the national figure, or roughly $18,504 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 24.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 87.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. 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.

With 621 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare La Prairie 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.