What is the population of Orono city?

Orono city has 8,205 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #117 of 914 in Minnesota.

What is the median household income in Orono city?

Median household income in Orono city is $181,875 a year, 131.6% above the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $1,653 a month and the median home value is $952,400, so rent absorbs about 10.9% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 5.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Orono city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 10.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Orono, MN population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Orono, Minnesota (Orono, MN — Census place “Orono city”) is 8,205 residents, ranking #117 of 914 places in Minnesota. Median household income is $181,875, the median home is worth $952,400 and median gross rent runs $1,653 a month. Looking for the Orono Minnesota ZIP code list? 2 ZIP codes serve Orono, MN: 55356, 55391.

Population: 8,205Orono city residents
Median household income: $181,875Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $952,400Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,653Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 47.2 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 90.5%Owner-occupied households

Orono ZIP codes (Minnesota)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Orono.

The Orono MN ZIP code list below covers 2 ZIP codes. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

What the numbers mean in Orono city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Orono city median would spend about 10.9% 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 5.2× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 6.3% of residents and 90.5% of households own their home.

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

Orono city, MN in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Orono city is a mid-size town in Minnesota, with 8,205 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #117 of 914 ranked by population — larger than 87% of them. The median age here is 47.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Orono city earn a median of $181,875 a year, 131.6% above the national figure of $78,538 and 141% above 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 6.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Orono city is valued at $952,400, 213.9% above the national figure and 296% above the $240,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,653 a month, 17.6% above the national figure, or roughly $19,836 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 10.9% 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 5.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 90.5% 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.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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

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What is the population of Orono city?: Orono city has 8,205 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #117 of 914 in Minnesota.
What is the median household income in Orono city?: Median household income in Orono city is $181,875 a year, 131.6% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Orono city?: Median gross rent is $1,653 a month and the median home value is $952,400, so rent absorbs about 10.9% of median household income.
Is Orono city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 5.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Orono city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 10.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Orono 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.