What is the population of Pipestone city?

Pipestone city has 4,165 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #174 of 914 in Minnesota.

What is the median household income in Pipestone city?

Median household income in Pipestone city is $61,442 a year, 21.8% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $722 a month and the median home value is $102,000, so rent absorbs about 14.1% of median household income.

Is Pipestone 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 Pipestone city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 14.1% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Pipestone, MN population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Pipestone, Minnesota (Pipestone, MN — Census place “Pipestone city”) is 4,165 residents, ranking #174 of 914 places in Minnesota. Median household income is $61,442, the median home is worth $102,000 and median gross rent runs $722 a month. Looking for the Pipestone Minnesota ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Pipestone, MN: 56164.

Population: 4,165Pipestone city residents
Median household income: $61,442Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $102,000Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $722Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 39 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 73.5%Owner-occupied households

Pipestone ZIP codes (Minnesota)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Pipestone.

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

56164

What the numbers mean in Pipestone city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Pipestone city median would spend about 14.1% 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 16% of residents and 73.5% of households own their home.

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

Pipestone city, MN in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Pipestone city is a small town in Minnesota, with 4,165 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #174 of 914 ranked by population — larger than 81% of them. The median age here is 39 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Pipestone city earn a median of $61,442 a year, 21.8% below the national figure of $78,538 and 19% 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 16% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Pipestone city is valued at $102,000, 66.4% below the national figure and 58% below the $240,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $722 a month, 48.6% below the national figure, or roughly $8,664 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.1% 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. 73.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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 Pipestone city?: Pipestone city has 4,165 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #174 of 914 in Minnesota.
What is the median household income in Pipestone city?: Median household income in Pipestone city is $61,442 a year, 21.8% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Pipestone city?: Median gross rent is $722 a month and the median home value is $102,000, so rent absorbs about 14.1% of median household income.
Is Pipestone 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 Pipestone city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 14.1% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Pipestone 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.